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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


Through election-year campaigns, grassroots civic groups based in and around Evanston are taking national politics to the local level.

Grassroots civic groups make national politics local

January 24, 2024

In anticipation of the 2024 presidential election, local civic groups are gearing up for a busy year of campaigning on national issues.  While November’s vote is still months away, local political...

Activists and politicians from Evanston and Chicago gathered to support abortion rights on Sunday.

‘We can win this battle:’ Evanston residents, politicians rally for abortion rights

October 16, 2023

Content Warning: This story contains mentions of sexual assault. Poet and dancer Sunshine Lombré shared a spoken word piece about reproductive rights and sexual violence to a crowd of listeners dressed...

Protestors gather in a domed multi-story building holding signs advocating for abortion access.

‘A painful and infuriating nodal point’: Protestors advocate for abortion rights on would-be 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

January 25, 2023

Content warning: This article contains discussions of unsafe abortions. Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade and seven months after the...

Three people hold a sign with the words “Commit for Pro-Choice!”

Chicago for Abortion Rights meets to discuss past rallies and future plans

October 20, 2022

Chicago for Abortion Rights held a virtual general meeting Thursday to reflect on the abortion rallies it sponsored this month in Chicago and Evanston as well as discuss plans for the months ahead.  A...

A crowd of protesters holds signs on a street lined with skyscrapers.

Thousands march in downtown Chicago to protest overturning of Roe v. Wade

June 26, 2022

The first thing DePaul University sophomore Isabel Olivo saw when she woke up Friday was the news that Roe v. Wade had been overturned.  But she said she didn’t feel sad — she was livid. She...

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