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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


Phoebe Liccardo, ETHS senior and former student representative to the D202 school board, speaks to the crowd. Students held a rally before lying on the ground for the die-in.

Evanston Township High School students hold die-in to draw attention to Evanston gun violence

May 22, 2019
Event organizers handed out chalk and pieces of paper with names of Evanston gun violence victims to students entering the school, asking them to write out whatever name they chose on the cement in front of the school’s Dodge Avenue entrance.
Toppling the Trigger: Evanston Township High School

Toppling the Trigger: Evanston Township High School

May 3, 2019

This story contains detailed descriptions and discussions of gun violence. The last time Carolyn Murray saw her son alive, he told her he loved her before boarding a flight to San Diego, where he...

Indivisible Evanston volunteers at the Davis Street CTA station. Volunteers helped with voter registration at the March for Our Lives in downtown Chicago.

Evanston, North Shore residents protest gun violence at March For Our Lives

April 2, 2018

While Americans gathered in cities across the country on March 24 to protest gun violence and advocate for gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Evanston and other North Shore...

Evanston to host community forum on gun violence Thursday

February 20, 2018

Mayor Steve Hagerty will host a community forum to discuss Evanston residents’ concerns about gun violence on Thursday. The event, which will be held at 7 p.m. at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center,...

Police section off an area with crime scene tape. Evanston Police Department announced on Sunday that it had charged two men in connection with the homicide of Yakez Semark.

EPD charges two men in connection with killing of Yakez Semark

February 18, 2018

Evanston Police Department has charged two people in connection with the homicide of Yakez Semark on Feb. 8, the city announced in a news release Sunday. Police found after an investigation that Evanston...

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