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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

Politics

Alderwoman Cicely Fleming sits at a city council meeting and speaks into a black microphone

Ald. Fleming to vote against the Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program

March 22, 2021

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) announced Friday she will vote against the housing reparations initiative at Monday’s City Council meeting. Fleming is the first alderman to publicly announce opposition to...

A digital illustration of a white hand and a black hand holding a beige piece of paper, against a blue-grey background.

Conservative D.C. lawyer denounces Evanston reparations proposal as “unconstitutional”

March 21, 2021

A conservative lawyer and activist from Washington, D.C. sent a letter to Mayor Steve Hagerty and City Council Thursday that denounced the city's current reparations proposal as “unconstitutional”...

Evanston residents can now get vaccinated at mass vaccination sites throughout Cook County and Illinois.

Cook County mass vaccination sites open registration for Evanston residents

March 18, 2021

Eligible Evanston residents can sign up for appointments at Cook County and Illinois mass vaccination sites with slots opening as early as this Friday at noon for residents in Phase 1B, according to a...

The lakefront at sunset. The sky is slightly orange and there is some snow on the ground

How Evanston’s beach tokens create an access barrier to Lake Michigan

March 12, 2021

Residents say the six beaches that span Evanston’s Lake Michigan shoreline are an integral part of the city’s identity. However, historians and advocates say beach admissions fees are a city effort...

A drawing of a Black person’s hand holding a scale, with a house on one side and cash on the other. Text at the top says The Fight For Reparations.

In Focus: With the eyes of a nation on Evanston, the first step of the historic reparations program faces pushback

March 12, 2021

On a December day in 2019, hundreds of Evanston residents sang, cheered and cried together in the pews of the First Church of God in celebration of the first funded Black reparations program in the city...

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