Evanston fabricated street crew hours, falsified state forms

Evanston fabricated street crew hours, falsified state forms to clear $4M in gas tax spending, records show Illustration by Charlotte Nagel To clear millions of dollars in unauthorized gas tax spending, city staff submitted maintenance statements with invented street crew hours, as well as a backdated certification and a doctored state form, records show. Max Turetzky, Assistant City Editor October 29, 2026 In paperwork submitted this summer, Evanston told the state its street crews had worked precisely 21,632.471 hours on road maintenance in 2023. At the hourly wages the city claimed, the cos

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