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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

Four people holding shovels and other gardening tools plants a sapling.

Natural Habitat Evanston plants saplings for a greener, more biodiverse city

May 5, 2023

Using a shovel’s blade to measure, Piper Rothschild mapped out the size of a round hole for a sapling. The hole needs to be twice as wide as the sapling’s root, she instructed the community volunteers...

An illustration of a rooster with glasses holding a calculator on a blue background.

Bringing bawk the rooster: City Council moves on amendment to allow roosters on school grounds

March 8, 2023

At Evanston Township High School, Tyrone spent the fall protecting his flock. The rooster would make sure all eight of the hens at the school ate first, according to ETHS science teacher Ellen Fierer....

Everything Evanston: City Council Rapid Recap talks animal shelter, Dog Beach and a rooster

Everything Evanston: City Council Rapid Recap talks animal shelter, Dog Beach and a rooster

March 5, 2023

This week, Everything Evanston’s Rapid Recap of City Council covers two major pieces of legislation and a rooster. The Council voted to approve changes to its current licensing legislation, as well as...

Large pond surrounded by long grasses and trees of varying heights under a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds. A group of students stand on a wooden platform next to the pond in the distance.

Evanston Township High School takes science outdoors on their arboretum accredited campus

February 18, 2022

In past winters, Scott Meier cut holes through a frozen pond to show his students the phytoplankton and zooplankton living under the ice.  Meier, an Evanston Township High School biology teacher, said...

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