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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


City manager Wally Bobkiewicz speaks at a meeting. Bobkiewicz on Saturday urged aldermen to vote not to eliminate the communicable disease surveillance specialist in the proposed 2019 budget.

Aldermen, city staff respond to resident budget concerns

October 28, 2018

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz on Saturday urged aldermen to vote not to eliminate the communicable disease surveillance specialist in the proposed 2019 budget. The decision would go against the current...

Evanston’s equity and empowerment coordinator Patricia Efiom speaks at a 5th Ward meeting in April. Efiom on Saturday presented an equity framework to aldermen.

Efiom presents equity framework, stresses city-wide policy approach

October 28, 2018

Evanston’s equity and empowerment coordinator urged aldermen Saturday to consider a framework meant to ensure the city approaches all policy through an equity lens instead of on a case-by-case basis. In...

Feinberg teaching hospital owes Medicare $6.4 million, federal report says

March 31, 2015

A recent federal audit found Northwestern Memorial Hospital owes Medicare an estimated $6.4 million for alleged billing errors. A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'...

Illness at Washington Elementary School identified as norovirus

November 9, 2014

The illness that caused students and staff to fall sick at Washington Elementary School last month has been identified as the highly contagious norovirus, according to a letter sent out to parents and...

A civil lawsuit unsealed last week alleges Northwestern ignored a whistle-blower's concerns that a Feinberg School of Medicine researcher was billing personal expenses and phony consulting fees to federal grants.

Lawsuit: Northwestern ‘refused to seriously address’ whistle-blower’s concerns

August 5, 2013

Northwestern ignored a whistle-blower's concerns that a cancer researcher was billing personal expenses and phony consulting fees to federal grants, according to a civil lawsuit unsealed last week. The...

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