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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


Police vehicles are seen Monday near the site of the Las Vegas shooting the night before. Nearly 60 people were killed and more than 520 were injured in the incident, which took place at a concert outside of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

Schapiro, Illinois politicians respond to Las Vegas shooting

October 3, 2017

University President Morton Schapiro and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), along with several other Illinois public figures, spoke out after the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday, expressing their...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) speaks. Durbin, along with U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Angus King (I-Maine), introduced a bill that would make college textbooks free and downloadable.

Durbin introduces bill to make textbooks free to public

September 26, 2017

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would make college textbooks free to the public, expanding access to a costly resource for many college students. The legislation, which...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) speaks at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2015. Durbin, along with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) wrote a letter urging Republican leaders to provide greater disaster relief to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Durbin, Duckworth call on GOP leaders to provide greater hurricane disaster relief

September 26, 2017

Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) published a letter Tuesday calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to provide greater disaster...

Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) speak at an event. The Illinois Democrats responded to an estimate that projects 14 million more people would become uninsured by next year under a proposed repeal bill.

Congressional Budget Office: House bill to leave 14 million more uninsured by 2018

May 24, 2017

Illinois Democrats sounded off on an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that a projected 14 million Americans would lose health care by next year under the proposed repeal of the Affordable...

President Donald Trump at an event celebrating his victory last year. Three Illinois gubernatorial candidates have called for Trump to be impeached.

Illinois gubernatorial candidates call for Trump’s impeachment

May 18, 2017

Three Illinois gubernatorial candidates have called on Congress to impeach President Donald Trump in a series of statements released over the past week. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), J.B. Pritzker...

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