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Home buyer tax credit time period has been extended and current homeowners are also elebilbe
Here are the details:
1. The $8,000 tax credit is available to “First Time” Home Buyers who haven’t owned a primary residence in the past three years (0r $4,000 to married buyers filing separately).

You can support you Evanston High School Football teams and our local food banks by bringing cans of food to the homecoming games Saturday Sept. 26th.
Varsity game starts at 1:30.  Anyone who brings at least 2 cans gets into the game free of charge. 

It's not too late to take advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008. for qualitifed buyers who purchase their principal residence between January 1 and December 1st 2009.
If you are a 1st time homebuyer, defined as someone who has not owned a home in the past 3 years, you can have a tax credit of up to 10% of your purchase price up to a maximum of $8,000 if you close on a property before December 1,2009

This item is on the agenda for the next council meeting Monday 27th. What has the discussion on this been? If anyone knows could they summarize community sentiment on this. What does the city get back from Northwestern for this? Maybe Northwestwern would clean up the parking lot on Central Street. It's an eyesore.

Why in the world would Bill Smith take what appears to be righteous delight in making sweeping generalizations about all Northwest and North East Evanston residents, or for that matter any it seems, any resident who lives in a singe family neighborhood, or who ask questions and demands answers as to what direction the city of Evanston is going in terms of density and planning.

It seems that that Bill thinks it is ok to say things like “density-phobic neighbors” or” status-conscious neighbors” to infer that the residents are somehow neurotic or shallow.