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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


Julie Green’s exhibit, “The Last Supper: 600 Plates Illustrating the Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates,” opens Saturday at the Block Museum of Art. She began her project after reading a newspaper article about a death row inmate’s final meal.

Block Museum exhibit raises questions about the morality of capital punishment

May 6, 2015

A&E Julie Green has painted nearly 50 plates of death row inmates’ final meals for the past 15 years straight, and she has no plans to stop — until capital punishment is abolished in the United...

Northwestern justice center sues Cook County officials

March 7, 2014

Lawyers from Northwestern’s Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center are suing Cook County officials and employees on behalf of Cook County Jail inmates. The lawsuit alleges a “culture of brutality...

James Franco, an actor, poet and filmmaker, speaks at the Chicago Humanities Festival Wednesday night at Northwestern’s Chicago campus. Franco debuted his new poetry collection at the festival.

Franco talks poetry, filmmaking to sold-out crowd at Chicago campus

February 19, 2014

Murderous necrophilia doesn't usually attract a crowd. But more than 700 people came Wednesday night to see James Franco speak about just that at the Northwestern School of Law. Franco directed the...

Website analyzes homicides in decade prior to abolition of Illinois death penalty

November 9, 2012

A database developed by the Northwestern School of Law cites statistics about murder in Illinois between 2000 and 2010, according to a University release. Leigh Bienen, a senior lecturer at the School...

Jaro: Northwestern could be leader in undergraduate business

Jaro: Northwestern could be leader in undergraduate business

October 18, 2012

Walking around the halls of elite American universities, one hears a familiar refrain: “Business education doesn’t belong at the undergraduate level.” Although attitudes differ across universities,...

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