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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


The Chicago skyline. 14 candidates will face off on Feb. 26 to replace Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago.

Candidates face a crowded field in the Chicago mayoral Election

February 8, 2019

On Feb. 26, Chicago residents will cast their vote for one of 14 candidates seeking to replace Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago. Emanuel announced he would not run for reelection in September 2018,...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 2018. McConnell blamed the deficit on failure to contain spending on entitlements like Medicare, though he predicted a solution to reducing the gap wouldn’t come soon.

Students, faculty question importance of U.S. economy’s budget deficit

October 18, 2018

Ahead of the November midterm elections, Daily reporters are speaking to students about issues they’ll take to the polls. In this article, students and faculty take on the United States’ budget deficit. The...

Graduating students look forward to the future during the University’s 2009 Commencement. Ten years later, some are still scarred by the Great Recession.

The Great Recession was 10 years ago. Some suffered scars, others escaped injury

October 12, 2018

One of the most important weeks of Evan Gray’s life was about to get hit with some bad news. It was spring 2009. Gray (Weinberg ’09) had secured his dream job at United Airlines, a company he had...

Neal Sales-Griffin (SESP ’09) is running for mayor of Chicago. The tech entrepreneur was ASG president in the 2008-09 academic year.

Former ASG president launches Chicago mayoral campaign

May 6, 2018

When Neal Sales-Griffin (SESP ’09) launched his 2008 campaign for Associated Student Government president, his goal was to initiate systemic change within ASG. Frustrated by a disengaged Senate and...

The Kellogg School of Management, 2211 Campus Drive, home of Northwestern’s department of economics. The department voted unanimously Tuesday to classify economics as a STEM major.

Economics department votes to classify as STEM major

April 17, 2018

Northwestern’s economics department voted unanimously Tuesday to classify economics as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics major, economics Prof. Mark Witte said. The department decided...

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