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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


A landscape photo of lake Michigan. Northwestern’s lakefill with painted rocks in the left frame, lake in the center frame with a sandbar and the Chicago skyline in the background. Blue-ish green water shows shadows of two fish.

Evanston moves forward with shoreline reconstruction plans

April 18, 2023

When Jeff Green was growing up in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, he’d spend his summers and winters on Howard Beach — sunbathing one season, sledding another. “I recently drove by there,...

A sink faucet with water dripping from it.

Evanston drowns competition in Illinois tap water taste test

April 10, 2023

In high school, Darrell King always wanted to win a state championship. As a football player and track runner in North Chicago, he never lived out his dream. But King, now chief of Evanston’s Water...

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Dittmar’s newest exhibit ‘When Homeward You Turn’ highlights a variety of artistic media exploring notions of home

April 6, 2023

Dittmar Gallery’s latest exhibition, “When Homeward You Turn,” explores people’s unique relationships to the abstract concept of home.  “I feel a lot of college students, university students...

The shore of Lake Michigan with the Chicago skyline in the background.

Water intake replacement project set to begin mid-March

February 28, 2023

Construction will begin mid-March to replace Evanston Water Utility’s oldest water intake, which provides drinking water to residents of Evanston and surrounding communities, according to a City of Evanston...

A brown dog is running on the sand.

Tails wag in excitement as Evanston Dog Beach is set to reopen

February 26, 2023

The Evanston Dog Beach will officially reopen Wednesday — to the delight of the city’s four-legged residents. The dog beach, located between Clark Street Beach and the Church Street Boat Ramp, allows...

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