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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

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

The Daily Northwestern


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Wirtz Center announces 2022-23 season offerings

July 14, 2022

The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts announced the shows for its 2022-23 season on July 5. “This season’s programming offers audiences both reimagined classics and compelling...

Exterior wall at the Evanston public library, a tall square red-brick building with six glass windows and tall silver lettering reading “Evanston Public Library” attached to the wall.

Evanston book clubs, literary drives expand elementary and middle school youth literacy

October 27, 2021

Every year since 2015, a team of first through eighth graders have assembled at the Evanston Public Library (or more recently, over Zoom) to carry out a crucial literary mission — voting for the next...

Brian Wilson, a children’s librarian, stands among stacks of books at Evanston Public Library. Wilson will start work for the 2017 Caldecott Award Selection Committee in January.

Evanston librarian prepares for Caldecott Award committee

October 29, 2015

For some, picture books may be a tenant only of early childhood, but for Evanston librarian Brian Wilson, the illustrations and prose of books like “Kitten’s First Full Moon” and “Where the Wild...

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