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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


Three light yellow figures, one with long hair, stand in the open doorway of a bright orange house with a black question mark printed on it and a purple roof, against an orange graph paper background.

The Daily Explains: What is Evanston’s “Brothel Law”?

October 18, 2021

How many roommates would you want to live with in your first apartment? To upperclassmen living off-campus who juggle rent, compatibility and square footage, that’s a common social and financial question....

Letter to the Editor: Ald. Fiske’s inaction on brothel law could cost her student support

May 17, 2018

For the past few weeks, Evanston’s City Council agenda has included an item of great importance to many Northwestern students: the brothel law. Don’t let the thought of scattered garter belts or...

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) speaks at a council meeting Monday. Fleming voted in favor of placing a discussion about the three-unrelated rule on the Planning and Development Committee’s agenda.

Aldermen place ‘brothel law’ discussion on committee’s agenda

April 30, 2018

Aldermen unanimously voted Monday to place the discussion about the city’s three-unrelated rule — often referred to as the city’s “brothel law” — on the agenda of the next Planning and Development...

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl stops by Dillo Day in 2014. The mayor called the annual Mayfest event pleasant even though she received a record number of complaints from Evanston residents.

In Focus: The mayor behind the myth

March 5, 2015
“I’ve become something of an urban legend,” the mayor said. “I don’t know that that will ever change.”
The fatal shooting of Dajae Coleman, 14, set off a city-wide discussion on gun violence during the fall of 2012. The Evanston Township High School freshman was killed in a case of mistaken identity, according to police.

4 years, hundreds of stories: Best of City

June 19, 2013

1. ‘Brothel law’ strains town-gown trust No one has ever been evicted for violating the city’s so-called "brothel law," a rule barring more than three unrelated individuals for living together,...

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