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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


 The Muslim Civic Coalition traveled to D.C. with Hanan Shaheen to advocate for the Wadee Resolution and attend the congressional hearing.

Resolution honoring Wadee Alfayoumi passes U.S. Senate almost one year after murder

October 22, 2024

One year after the murder of Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy from Plainfield, Illinois, his memory is driving national policy and uniting Chicago communities.  Last October,...

Several people standing in a church.

Interfaith service held for victim killed in alleged anti-Palestinian hate crime, rallies support for congressional resolution

May 19, 2024

Content warning: This story contains discussion of hate crime. A week after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, 6-year-old Palestinian-American Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times in his home in Plainfield,...

Ortiz: Chuy García and the machine he wants to make

Ortiz: Chuy García and the machine he wants to make

February 28, 2023

In my eyes, the most exciting story in this Chicago election is that of Jesús "Chuy" García. I think it’s fascinating how he has tried to make a political machine in the last few years, and how that...

Shadows of people in front of a map of Illinois with check boxes in the background.

Illinois residents cast votes in Tuesday’s primaries

June 29, 2022

Illinois voters headed to the polls Tuesday for the state’s 2022 primary elections to select party candidates that will appear on ballots in November. Gov. J.B. Pritzker won the Democratic nomination...

A young woman in a handmade dress dances as two men beat hand drums and a woman in white sings. In the background is a crowd, including a child on top of his father’s shoulders.

Chicago’s Indigenous community, politicians rally for recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 12, 2021

Drum beats and incantations rang out Monday morning in Pottawattomie Park while Marissa Garcia, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, performed a healing dance called a “jingle dance”...

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