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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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Evanston group for fair zoning launches community outreach initiative

October 20, 2022

Joining Forces for Affordable Housing, a local coalition working toward equitable zoning, is launching community outreach — hoping to contribute to larger city plans to increase affordable housing.  The...

Evanston Live TV owner Meleika Gardner educates, advocates, inspires

Evanston Live TV owner Meleika Gardner educates, advocates, inspires

February 8, 2021

When Meleika Gardner founded Evanston Live TV in 2016, she threw herself into the work, filming her conversations with Evanston municipal election candidates as they drove around the city in her car. “I...

Amid COVID-19, local organizations are working to prevent an undercount, especially within ‘hard-to-reach’ communities.

Hard to Count: The fight to prevent a 2020 undercount amid COVID-19

April 16, 2020

Once a decade, the U.S. government attempts to count all Americans — but not every American is easy to reach, and an undercount can have enduring consequences for those the government misses. The...

MSNBC contributor Jill Wine-Banks speaks at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center on Tuesday. The event, hosted by Indivisible Evanston, focused on increasing civic engagement in the 2020 election.

MSNBC contributor, local activist push voter turnout in 2020

October 22, 2019

Ahead of the 2020 election, MSNBC contributor Jill Wine-Banks and the Evanston NAACP’s civic engagement chair Willie Shaw urged Evanston residents at a Tuesday event to get out the vote and stay engaged. Invisible...

Willie Shaw speaks at an event hosted by the NAACP’s Evanston chapter. She called for legal reform to end the mass incarceration of young black men.

Evanston Branch NAACP hosts panel discussing mass incarceration

February 4, 2018

During her time as a judge, Mary Maxwell-Thomas recommended a young male charged with a crime for an educational program, in lieu of jail time. The boy then went on to earn a college degree and teach in...

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