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The Daily Northwestern

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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District 65 Board hears 5th Ward school naming update, presentation on individualized education services

May 20, 2024

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education heard an update on how to name the future 5th Ward school at its meeting Monday night. The meeting followed the third and final public hearing...

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District 65 Board to vote on resolution on potential Bessie Rhodes closure

May 20, 2024

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education voted 6-1 to introduce a resolution for closing the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies after the 2025-26 school year. The vote came at...

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Maj. Gen. Gregg F. Martin discusses battling mental health stigma

May 20, 2024

Twenty years after commanding more than 10,000 soldiers in Iraq, two-star Maj. Gen. Gregg F. Martin is leading a new battle — recruiting for the war on the stigma of mental illness. Martin spoke on...

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Interfaith service held for victim killed in alleged anti-Palestinian hate crime, rallies support for congressional resolution

May 19, 2024

Content warning: This story contains discussion of hate crime. A week after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, 6-year-old Palestinian-American Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times in his home in Plainfield,...

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‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free’: Community vigil seeks peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel and Gaza

May 19, 2024

About 120 people gathered at Fountain Square Sunday to call for a bilateral ceasefire and the release of hostages on both sides of the war in Israel and Gaza.  The “Solidarity Vigil for Justice and...

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