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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

A photo of the Frances Willard House Museum. A brown paneled house set in front of the night sky.

Frances Willard House Museum and Archives highlights historical efforts to further women’s education in Evanston

September 25, 2022

In 1859, Frances Willard graduated as part of the first class at North-Western Female College. She pushed for equal coeducation at unaffiliated Northwestern University before becoming the first dean of...

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Moving to Evanston for the first time? Here’s what you need to know

August 12, 2022

When people who aren’t familiar with Northwestern ask me where I go to school, I often find myself telling them my university is in “a suburb just outside of Chicago.”  Once you’re here, though,...

NU Declassified: Frances Willard: Evanston’s sober sister

NU Declassified: Frances Willard: Evanston’s sober sister

August 10, 2021

Frances Willard holds an important place in history for her role as an educator, prohibitionist and suffragette. Evanston residents claim her as one of their most famous residents. On this episode of NU...

Women sit behind a table with a sign reading “Headquarters Evanston League of Women Voters” in a photograph dated Oct. 24, 1928. The League, founded to educate and encourage women voters shortly after the 19th Amendment’s ratification, is still active in voter mobilization today.

The “very radical stance”: A history of women’s suffrage in Evanston

November 3, 2020

On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, became the law of the land. The real timeline of women voting in Evanston is a little more complicated. Decades...

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