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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


Students stand outside during a past Dillo Day event.

R&B musician Omar Apollo named daytime headliner for Dillo Day 2021

May 12, 2021

Musician Omar Apollo was named Dillo Day’s 2021 daytime headliner, according to a Wednesday release from Mayfest Productions. Apollo is the first performer Mayfest has announced to the Northwestern...

Students line a short, metal concert fence and raise their hands in celebration. They are dressed casually and some are wearing sunglasses.

Dillo Day 2021 to include some in-person programming

April 7, 2021

Dillo Day 2021 will include some in-person and virtual programming and will be around the theme POSTMODERN, Mayfest Productions announced in a Wednesday news release.  The music festival will be held...

Students attend Mayfest Productions’ Dillo Day. Because Dillo Day 2020 was moved online, there were fewer costs associated with it, and Mayfest had leftover funds.

Student organizations talk club finances following canceled spring events

October 12, 2020

Due to the sudden shift to remote learning last spring due to COVID-19, many student organizations were forced to cancel their Spring Quarter programming, including fundraisers. Without these events,...

Rico Nasty at Pitchfork Music Festival in 2019. The 23-year-old rapper was Digital Dillo’s headline act.

Rapper Rico Nasty performs top hits, talks national protests during headline Dillo set

May 30, 2020

There are many words one could use to describe rapper Rico Nasty — scary, energetic, funny, and above all, extremely talented. All those qualities and more came through during the Digital Dillo headliner’s...

The album artwork for The Cure to Loneliness, Jai Wolf’s debut full-length album released last spring. Jai Wolf performed as one of three mainstage artists at Digital Dillo.

Jai Wolf brings stuffed animals, EDM and purple Helvetica font to Digital Dillo

May 30, 2020

As Jai Wolf took to the stage — his couch and coffee table — late Friday afternoon, he shared the space with a stuffed Snorlax. The Pokémon, notably, doesn’t do anything other than eat and sleep. But...

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