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Sat., May. 30, 2026 @ 10a · IHSA Regional Championship · The Glenbrook North (Northbrook, IL) varsity baseball team has a home playoff game vs. Evanston ...

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Cosponsor hopes City Council will take it up next month.

Madison Taylor receives Tewaaraton Award.

Community questions what may happen to magnet school site once the building closes.

By the end of the Associated Student Government Senate’s annual Student Activities Finance Committee appeals meeting, 24 clubs walked away with varying success in securing their requested portions of the $60,000 in additional funding available Wednesday night in Harris Hall. In the nearly five-hour Funding Senate, clubs appealed for additional funds on top of the...

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As part of Evanston’s effort to solicit residents’ input on what to do with its most valuable underutilized buildings, a new city-run website has produced a hodgepodge of competing visions for those properties. The Putting Assets to Work program launched in 2024 with $985,000 in federal grant money. It aims to redevelop city properties, with...

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Six months after Northwestern struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore frozen federal funding for research, student researchers remain worried about the future of research funding and its impact on their careers. In April 2025, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal research funding for NU, resulting in research labs, primarily in...

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Four weeks before Weinberg senior Narmeen Chahal leaves for the summer, she started preparing a classroom of kids at the Learning Bridge Early Education Center — and herself — to say farewell. “I have to prepare myself for it because this is one of my favorite things I’ve done here at Northwestern,” Chahal said, referring...

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Preserving the neighborhood around the soon-to-close Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies dominated conversations during an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 community event Thursday evening.  At the event, Bessie Rhodes parents and other community members discussed the building’s future. The group relocated to the school’s auditorium to accommodate high attendance. Bessie Rhodes, which the District...

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In this episode, Opinion Editor Alexia Sextou, Assistant Opinion Editor Ivy Frater and history Prof. Susan Pearson discuss the use of artificial intelligence in university spaces, and the road to crafting a healthy campus culture around academic integrity and AI use. ANAVI PRAKASH: My hot take is that winter is so much better than summer,...

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In 1983, on the corner of Green Bay Road and Emerson Street, social workers Cheryl Judice and her then-fiancee Hecky Powell opened Hecky’s Barbecue, a New Orleans-style barbecue restaurant.  “With a name like Hecky, it had to be put to good use,” said Judice, who is currently an adjunct lecturer at the School of Education...

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Think you know Northwestern’s campus? Take your best shot, and try to name this week’s location.

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Welcome to Recaptured — a weekly roundup of The Daily’s photojournalism, featuring our reporters’ most memorable moments. This week’s Recaptured includes Northwestern’s national championship winning women’s lacrosse team, a team-up between “vintage actors” and NU theatre undergraduates and this year’s freshman musical. Email: photo@dailynorthwestern.com  Related Stories: — Recaptured: Concerts, concerts and more concerts  — Recaptured:...

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Este artículo ha sido traducido por Marisa Guerra Echeverria. Aquí está el artículo original en inglés. El Concejo Municipal votó a favor de retrasar la finalización de las reglas para asignar al alcalde interino en su junta el martes por la tarde.  La discusión sobre el cambio de reglas se da luego de la victoria...

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At Northwestern’s annual VentureCat competition for student businesses, McCormick senior Trevor Abbott and McCormick sophomore Quinn McGinley took home $100,000 for their startup HaptE, a computer vision system designed to improve the efficiency of warehouse operations. Finalists presented their pitches in a showcase before winners were announced.   Email: carternishi2029@u.northwestern.edu  Related Stories: — Gallery: Ahana...

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After waiting nearly two hours for A$AP Rocky to start the premiere tour show for his latest album “Don’t Be Dumb” — without an opener — even his biggest fans were grumbling. However, complaints quickly turned into cheers as an opening snippet of “Grim Freestyle” blasted through the speakers, and Rocky proved his finesse as...

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Este artículo ha sido traducido por Micaela Rivera Porras. Aquí está el artículo original en inglés. El futuro de la celebración anual del Cuatro de Julio de Evanston está bajo cuestionamiento mientras los precios aumentan y el financiamiento disminuye. La Evanston Fourth of July Association (Asociación del Cuatro de Julio de Evanston) ha organizado las...

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The future of Evanston’s annual Fourth of July celebration hangs in the balance as prices increase and funds dwindle.  The Evanston Fourth of July Association has been putting on celebrations for the holiday since 1922. While the festivities will go forward as planned this year, a decrease in funding has raised questions around how the...

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I’ve always looked back at my kindergarten self with a degree of reverence. I would come home every day with stacks of written stories and coloring pages. Vibrantly creative and viciously feisty, I was a natural disaster in a 3-foot-tall body. A pink-clad force to be reckoned with. The world felt like a completely different...

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