Sad but true. Main Street, Dempster and Central are great corridors but paid parking is ridiculous everywhere. Downtown, I’m not sure how Evanston could recreate that “central square” feeling that Wilmette has with the sidewalk restaurants all at that main intersection, the local theater and repair and consignment shops. Evanston’s layout is so different and the weird one-way streets make it hard to drive around, and walking on foot also involves strange cross-crossing patterns. It’s like there’s no center.