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


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Aldermanic candidates address Evanston Together LLC in Election Day Eve forum

April 6, 2021

Just one day before the April 6 municipal elections, aldermanic candidates addressed Evanston Together LLC, the recently formed political organization that has sparked citywide controversy, in an Evanston...

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th). Aldermen passed a restorative housing reparations program by an 8-1 vote Monday, with Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) opposing.

City Council passes the country’s first reparations program for Black residents

March 23, 2021

Evanston’s City Council voted 8-1 to implement the Restorative Housing Reparations program Monday, with Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) opposing.  The program will become the first material action on reparations...

A drawing of a Black person’s hand holding a scale, with a house on one side and cash on the other. Text at the top says The Fight For Reparations.

In Focus: With the eyes of a nation on Evanston, the first step of the historic reparations program faces pushback

March 12, 2021

On a December day in 2019, hundreds of Evanston residents sang, cheered and cried together in the pews of the First Church of God in celebration of the first funded Black reparations program in the city...

State rep. La Shawn Ford. Ford, along with Evanston’s own Meleika Gardner, helped to draft inclusive education bills, which were signed into law by Gov. J.B Pritzker.

Gov J.B. Pritzker signs inclusive education act, includes bills co-authored by Evanston’s Meleika Gardner

March 11, 2021

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Education and Workforce Equity Act into law on Monday, which allows for the expansion of both Black history and American history in K-12 curriculum, as well as additional...

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Aldermen respond to residents urging delay of reparations vote

March 9, 2021

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) and Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) pushed back on claims that the city has not involved the public in the reparations process at a City Council meeting Monday. Over ten residents...

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