Residents can expect Evanston’s ward map to look a little different next year.  Evanston’s Redistricting Committee met Tuesday to discuss criteria for redrawing the city’s ward boundaries and...

Supreme Court Justice and American political icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday, leaving behind a rich mark on the fight for gender equality and civil rights in U.S. courts. Her death came roughly six...

“Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty” and “Liberty is a woman” appeared in all-caps on signs made 100 years apart. Suffragists protesting President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 made...

Between 2008 and 2012, voter turnout in the U.S. presidential election fell about 3 percentage points to 58 percent, a figure that represents an uninspiring majority of Americans. To be fair, many Americans...

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) spoke Tuesday at Northwestern about the Voting Rights Act and how college students can become more politically engaged. More than 20 individuals attended the talk,...