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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 Chicago Transit Authority rolled out plans for a $1.1 billion Red and Purple Line Modernization project. The project is intended to decongest traffic near the Belmont station.

CTA receives $1.1 billion federal grant for Red, Purple lines

January 12, 2017

Commuters who ride the Evanston-servicing Red and Purple Lines will benefit from more than a billion dollars in federal grants to make the route more comfortable and accessible. The Chicago Transit...

Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2015. An ASG committee aims to present the Affordable College Textbook Act, which was proposed by Durbin, at an upcoming Association of Big Ten Students conference.

ASG renews effort to support bill that could reduce the cost of textbooks

November 15, 2016

Members of Associated Student Government aim to gather faculty and student support for a bill that would create public online textbook resources for college communities. The Affordable College Textbook...

Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2015. Durbin spoke on Thursday on the opioid epidemic, saying the medical community and pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to help end the crisis.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin urges big pharma action on opioids at law school talk

October 20, 2016

The opioid crisis is everyone’s problem, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Thursday on Northwestern’s Chicago campus, but big pharma needs to admit their complicity in the epidemic and take steps...

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to Abner Mikva during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in 2014. Mikva died on July 4 at age 90.

Liberal icon Abner Mikva initiated legacy of Democratic activism in Evanston

July 11, 2016

Abner Mikva moved to Evanston at the right time. In 1971, the progressive politician and former federal judge — who died last week at age 90 — rented an apartment just around the corner from where...

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Chicago on Thursday. The president argued for Senate Republicans to hold a hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

Obama continues push for his Supreme Court pick in talk at University of Chicago

April 7, 2016

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama focused on his struggles with the Supreme Court nomination process, polarization in electoral politics and the importance of increasing diversity in public office during...

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