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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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A skater descends into Evanston Skate Park

Evanston’s new skate park delivers community but not ‘street cred’

April 7, 2024

Local skater Adam Eichorn turned toward two police cars guarding the entrance to the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Evanston’s new skate park, took out his phone and snapped a picture. He laughed to himself,...

Copies of Curtis Chin’s memoir sit on a table.

Curtis Chin talks memoir, Asian American upbringing at Evanston ASPA event

April 5, 2024

Curtis Chin did not intend to be a memoirist. Instead, Chin first considered becoming a poet, he said at a Thursday evening talk at Koi.  Chin — the author of “Everything I Learned, I Learned...

Two hands holding a paper that says “reparations.”

Evanston Reparations Fund to be deposited in Black-owned Liberty Bank

April 4, 2024

The Reparations Committee announced that it will deposit the Evanston Reparations Fund into Liberty Bank, one of the largest Black-owned banks in America, at the committee’s Thursday meeting.  Effective...

A storefront window with a snowy overhang.

Celtic Knot Public House to reopen in June, aims to serve as community hub

April 4, 2024

Evanston resident Rives Collins said the Celtic Knot Public House reminded him of the American sitcom “Cheers.” “People would walk in the bar, and someone would call out their name to welcome...

A puddle covers the sidewalk in front of an empty lot.

Grant Street neighbors ‘disappointed’ with small homes’ approval

April 4, 2024

For a moment Tuesday, a verdant but vacant lot on Grant Street sat in silence as the spring showers paused. Yet at the future site of Evanston’s first “pocket neighborhood” of small homes, the quiet...

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