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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

Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2015. An ASG committee aims to present the Affordable College Textbook Act, which was proposed by Durbin, at an upcoming Association of Big Ten Students conference.

ASG renews effort to support bill that could reduce the cost of textbooks

November 15, 2016

Members of Associated Student Government aim to gather faculty and student support for a bill that would create public online textbook resources for college communities. The Affordable College Textbook...

Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2015. Durbin spoke on Thursday on the opioid epidemic, saying the medical community and pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to help end the crisis.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin urges big pharma action on opioids at law school talk

October 20, 2016

The opioid crisis is everyone’s problem, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Thursday on Northwestern’s Chicago campus, but big pharma needs to admit their complicity in the epidemic and take steps...

Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to his supporters after he was elected governor of Illinois on Nov. 4, 2014. Rauner is being sued by anti-abortion pregnancy centers for a bill that requires doctors to give patients information about abortion services.

Pro-life groups file suit against Gov. Rauner over abortion bill

October 5, 2016

Anti-abortion pregnancy centers in Illinois have filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Bruce Rauner over a bill requiring doctors to give patients information about abortion services and other alternatives...

Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to his supporters after he was elected governor of Illinois on Nov. 4, 2014. Rauner’s plan to put a redistricting referendum on the ballot was shot down by the Supreme Court of Illinois.

Illinois Supreme Court rejects redistricting referendum

September 20, 2016

The attempt backed by Gov. Bruce Rauner to put on the Illinois ballot a referendum that would ask voters to allow a possible redrawing of district boundaries was shot down and rejected a future rehearing...

Illinois legislators introduce national college mental health bills

Illinois legislators introduce national college mental health bills

April 3, 2016

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bipartisan bill to the U.S. Senate last month to provide grants for mental health services on college campuses nationwide. The bill’s approach to improving mental...

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