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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

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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Grassroot organizations fill gaps in Evanston’s media landscape

May 2, 2022

Our Evanston, Dear Evanston and Evanston Rules are three local media organizations that aim to engage the immediate community through resident-first reporting. These emerging outlets have been established...

The exterior of Prairie Joe’s. Paintings are propped up in the windows.

Prairie Joe’s closes after 30 years of business

November 2, 2021

After 30 years of business, beloved Evanston restaurant Prairie Joe’s closed on Oct. 28. The iconic locale opened in 1991, when owner Aydin Dincer bought an old snack shop and diner called Jordan’s...

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Your guide to the city of Evanston

August 16, 2021

When people hear you’re going to Northwestern, they might think you’re going to school in Chicago. The billboards throughout the Chicagoland area that call NU “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” might lead...

A yard sign from Connections for the Homeless that shows a person holding a baby and reads “LOVE DON’T PAY THE RENT.” There is a large pale building in the background.

“This virus isn’t going to go away” — Evanston organizations rush to assist the city’s vulnerable homeless population

March 30, 2020

As Illinois residents shelter in place and businesses close their doors, the city’s homeless population is left particularly vulnerable to the threat of COVID-19. In response, some Evanston organizations...

Evanston residents with the group Dear Evanston taking a picture before crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Residents joined Dear Evanston on an "uncomfortable journey" to Montgomery, Alabama.

Dear Evanston organizes trip to engage with the history of slavery

September 29, 2019

Nearly 100 Evanston residents boarded busses to take “An Uncomfortable Journey” to Montgomery, Alabama in order to learn about and confront the history of racial injustice in the United States. During...

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881
Nina Kavin