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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

Civic leaders, organizers discuss impact of EPD limiting practice of arresting minors

Civic leaders, organizers discuss impact of EPD limiting practice of arresting minors

October 1, 2020

Iain Bady was arrested at 12 years old. After he rode on the back pegs of a bicycle a friend drove into traffic at a stoplight, Bady was arrested and brought to the Evanston police station in July...

Mayor Steve Hagerty talks with protesters outside the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Hagerty has not committed to defunding the Evanston Police Department.

Protest results in impromptu meeting with mayor as youth protesters push Hagerty on defunding EPD

July 6, 2020

About 30 protesters walked from Mayor Steve Hagerty’s house to the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center on Monday afternoon, calling on Hagerty to defund the Evanston Police Department. As the group marched...

The painted street in front of Evanston Township High School. On Tuesday, City Council voted to rename the portion of Dodge Avenue “Black Lives Matter Way.”

A weekend of youth-led street painting: “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” “DEFUND EPD” painted on major Evanston streets

July 5, 2020

More than five weeks after George Floyd’s death, which has spurred nationwide protests against racial injustice and calls to defund the police, the holiday weekend of July 4 was a weekend of anti-racist...

The Women Behind Evanston Fight For Black Lives

The Women Behind Evanston Fight For Black Lives

June 19, 2020

They met in high school while organizing for gun reform, climate justice and anti-racism. Now, back from college and stuck in their childhood homes for the pandemic, this group of recent Evanston Township...

Phoebe Liccardo, ETHS senior and former student representative to the D202 school board, speaks to the crowd. Students held a rally before lying on the ground for the die-in.

Evanston Township High School students hold die-in to draw attention to Evanston gun violence

May 22, 2019
Event organizers handed out chalk and pieces of paper with names of Evanston gun violence victims to students entering the school, asking them to write out whatever name they chose on the cement in front of the school’s Dodge Avenue entrance.
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