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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


CTA installs new digital screens on Evanston stations

April 14, 2013

The Chicago Transit Authority has installed new digital screens on Evanston's Purple Line stations as part of a larger initiative to update train-tracking devices. Work to install the new generation...

CTA rehabilitating Noyes El station

October 17, 2012

Chicago Transit Authority “Renew Crews” will work on the Purple Line’s Noyes El stop throughout the next six weeks. Improvements including paint removal and reapplication, power washing, gutter...

Homeless artist Betsy Benefield sells abstract calligraphy paintings under the Davis El stop to support herself.

Q&A: Betsy Benefield, street artist

October 9, 2012

Certain days of the week between mid-afternoon to sundown, Betsy Benefield sits underneath Evanston's Davis El station painting on canvases with acrylic paint. Benefield carries a sign reading, “I...

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