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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

The Daily Northwestern


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Kumar Jensen, Evanston’s chief sustainability and resilience officer, speaks with local environmental justice advocates at a virtual event hosted by Citizens’ Greener Evanston.

Community leaders discuss environmental justice at Citizens’ Greener Evanston Event

April 23, 2021

Evanston community members and environmental leaders discussed the Church Street Waste Transfer Station, the city’s environmental policies and other local concerns at a virtual panel Thursday. The...

Rev. Michael Nabors speaks at a podium outside a parking garage. Four speakers, all wearing masks, stand in a line behind him.

Evanston residents honor George Floyd in interfaith vigil

April 22, 2021

Over 60 Evanston residents gathered to honor George Floyd and affirm the work of the Black Lives Matter movement at a vigil Wednesday evening, a day after the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer...

Two bottles of orange hot sauce and one bottle of a yellow-green hot sauce, all with labels that say “Awe-Sauce Hot Sauce” with a pepper below. The background is filled with red peppers hanging from green plants.

Evanston resident builds handcrafted hot-sauce brand

April 22, 2021

Verzell James has brought 100 boxes of Awe-Sauce, his hand-crafted hot sauce, to various shops and restaurants around the city. His goal? To expand, to succeed and to show others they too can grow a business...

The Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, a tall red brick building with stone archways around the doors.

Proposal to replace Board of Ethics headed to City Council from Rules Committee

April 20, 2021

City Council is slated to vote on a proposal to eliminate Evanston’s current Board of Ethics on April 26.  Currently, the Board of Ethics, which reports to the Rules Committee, serves as the accountability...

The right side of an open book with light brown pages. Some of the pages are ripped. The top most page says “Asian American History?” and the background is turquoise.

TEAACH Act could make Illinois first state to mandate teaching of Asian American history in public schools

April 20, 2021

Samantha Fajardo, a first-generation Filipino American and a freshman at Oakton Community College, remembers flipping through her sixth grade social studies textbook and seeing a small paragraph titled...

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