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

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Oakton Community College. The school is launching a contract tracing training program.

Evanston contact tracing efforts already in full swing as Gov. Pritzker announces state initiative

May 17, 2020

Contact tracing efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Evanston were already well underway when Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state would undergo a massive contact tracing operation at the start...

With no playbook and a finite supply, Evanston health workers must gear up for the long haul

With no playbook and a finite supply, Evanston health workers must gear up for the long haul

April 25, 2020

In the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, emergency medicine physician Michael Slater consulted with the AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital Evanston ethics team to consider how to ration supplies...

Evanston is ‘flattening the curve,’ experts say

Evanston is ‘flattening the curve,’ experts say

April 15, 2020

City public health manager Greg Olsen said that data shows the city is successfully ‘flattening’ the pandemic curve. As of Wednesday afternoon, there are 197 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Evanston....

The myth of the ‘great equalizer’: Preliminary data show Black Evanston residents contract virus at higher rates

The myth of the ‘great equalizer’: Preliminary data show Black Evanston residents contract virus at higher rates

April 11, 2020

The novel coronavirus has upended life as many Americans know it. Spreading across the country like wildfire, it has affected nearly every state and territory, leading some to call the virus the “great...

One of several rats scurry around the scene as Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation crews clean up a homeless encampment in Los Angeles on May 23, 2019. The number of rat complaints in Evanston has decreased over the past four years.

Number of rat complaints down from 2015

November 14, 2019

The number of rodent service requests regarding rats has gone down by nearly 50 percent since 2015, city staff said at a meeting Wednesday at the Levy Senior Center. Interim public health manager Greg...

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