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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


Ryan Hemsworth, an electronic DJ, will open for 2 Chainz at Dillo Day. Hemsworth is performing at Sasquatch! Music Festival this weekend.

Ryan Hemsworth announced as opener for 2 Chainz on Dillo Day

May 19, 2014

Ryan Hemsworth will perform as Dillo Day’s main stage electronic act, Mayfest announced Monday. He will perform in the slot right before headliner 2 Chainz. Hemsworth, a Canadian disc jockey and...

Pittsburgh-based rapper Wiz Khalifa performs Saturday night on the Lakefill as Dillo Day's headliner. He went on stage after a four-hour delay due to weather.

After long delays, headliners close rainy Dillo Day

June 2, 2013

When Mayfest wanted sunshine, it got rain — but for the third consecutive year, Evanston's unpredictable spring could not stop Dillo Day. Thunderstorms forced Mayfest to evacuate the Lakefill just...

Pittsburgh-based rapper Wiz Khalifa will headline Dillo Day, Mayfest announced this afternoon. The announcement came just one day before the annual music festival, the latest headliner announcement in at least a decade.

Updated: Wiz Khalifa will headline Dillo Day, Mayfest announces day before festival

May 31, 2013

Rapper Wiz Khalifa will headline Dillo Day, Mayfest announced this afternoon, just one day before he is scheduled to take the stage. The Residence Hall Association is co-sponsoring the performance. Khalifa,...

Dillo Day lineup incomplete but promising

May 29, 2013

Friends, students and Dillo Day companions, lend me your eyes. I come to explain the upcoming musical attractions. There is much praise. With Monday's announcement that Smash Mouth will play the festival,...

Mayfest picks measure up to peer schools, but do they fit our taste?

May 29, 2013

I set out this week to write a column about how Mayfest failed us for Dillo Day and how all our peer universities get better headliners than us. But to my journalistic chagrin, I found my assumption to...

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