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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


The Weber Arch on Sheridan Road

Evanston residents share thoughts on Northwestern’s Good Neighbor Racial Equity Fund

August 23, 2021

In July 2020, then-Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty and Northwestern President Morton Schapiro announced a new plan for the University to give back to the community and advance racial equity in Evanston: the...

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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 hand holds a phone playing a video of a lock. The title "Locked Out" appears in white against a green background.

In Focus: A mom wanted to know whether police pointed guns toward her kids. EPD kept the footage locked away.

July 4, 2021

Anya Tanyavutti was in her dining room preparing for dinner when her children told her they watched police officers pull their guns out in front of a playground. Her three kids, ages 1, 4 and 6 at the...

Ald. Devon Reid (8th), a Black man, sits wearing a black suit with a red tie and a white lapel pin. There is a projector screen in the background and a green plastic drink bottle next to him.

Last July, former City Clerk Devon Reid implemented a police transparency policy. Almost a year later, the city has yet to follow it.

June 25, 2021

Last July, Devon Reid, Evanston’s city clerk at the time, announced a policy he claimed would increase police transparency: publishing Evanston Police Department misconduct and use of force records on...

Groups of people talk with each other in a city square lined by green trees. Red lanterns on white strings criss-cross the blue sky.

Residents join city’s first ever ASAPIA Heritage Month arts festival

May 23, 2021

On Saturday, residents filled Sherman Ave. with red lanterns, origami cranes and multicolored koinobori carp streamers fluttering through the air during Evanston’s first Asian South Asian Pacific Islander...

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