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Wearing shades of green and carrying signs reading “One city, one union” and “Union busting is disgusting,” dozens of AFSCME Local 1891 union members arrived about 15 minutes early to City Council’s Monday meeting. They protested the potential separation of the Evanston Public Library from the city, as well as voicing internal library concerns. In...

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In 2020, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist — often known to fans as Alc — released their album “Alfredo.” Five years later, the rapper-producer pair returned with a sequel, “Alfredo 2,” released July 25, trading the first record’s Italian-mobster vibe for a Japanese Yakuza-inspired, crime noir sound. The legendary duo stopped by Chicago’s sold-out Byline...

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This review contains spoilers.  Season 2 of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This,” released Thursday, builds on the previous season’s humor while adding new growth and insight to its characters. But the show’s original charm is lost in the latest episode’s twists and turns.  The show picks up a few months after the ending of Season 1,...

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Kneeling in a wooded area of Harbert-Payne Park, a 13.5-acre city park nestled along the bank of the North Shore Channel, 4th Ward resident Allison Sloan pinched the leaves of a young buckthorn shrub with her pink gardening gloves. Its round leaves were untouched by hungry bugs, she noted — local insects have not adapted...

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Prior to arriving on campus, Weinberg freshman Ben O’Shaughnessy expected making friends to be hard, but he was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to make genuine connections. A resident of Elder Hall, located on North Campus, O’Shaughnessy described the dorm as fairly social, and he said Northwestern has a lot of communities that...

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This review contains spoilers.  Balancing newfound stardom with haunting memories of his past, Jeremy Allen White portrays singer Bruce Springsteen both on the road to fame and in the lows of his personal life. The new biopic, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” follows Springsteen in the creation of the album “Nebraska” during a deeply depressive...

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Paintbrushes were swapped out for knives at ARTica’s pumpkin carving event as students rolled up their sleeves to carve intricate designs Tuesday on the Norris South Lawn.  The event offered students a chance to celebrate the Halloween season with free pumpkin carving from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Both individually and in groups, students gave...

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Measure would tax entertainment and billionaires’ investments and raise the sales tax.

Illinois State Police activated an endangered missing person advisory alert for him around 9:45 p.m.. Evanston police say the search in north ...

13-year-old reported missing at mid-afternoon Tuesday.

When Baja SAE members tried to access the Ford Prototyping Lab after hours at the end of the second week of Fall Quarter, their card access was denied, McCormick senior Ryan Kelly said.  Last academic year, the shop was open to any NU student from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. However, trained students were granted...

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Illinois joined half the nation's states Tuesday in suing the Trump administration in an effort to reverse a scheduled Saturday cutoff of food ...

This article contains spoilers. Throughout history, audiences have been introduced to a wide variety of monsters. While Count Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are some of the most popular, few have the same notoriety as Frankenstein’s monster. Since 1910, there have been over 400 feature-length films about the Halloween icon created by Dr. Frankenstein...

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“The scale of this is unimaginable to providers like us,” Connections for the Homeless CEO says.

She was born in Evanston, Illinois, on November 9, 1948. Connie attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and later transferred to the ...

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Finance panel member says money-saving solutions other than closing schools are being ignored.

EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern men's basketball takes the floor in Welsh-Ryan Arena for the first time in the 2025-26 season with an exhibition ...

Buildings considered “safe” from shutdown are now potentially in jeopardy.

Tobacco compliance checks are funded by a grant from the Illinois Department of Human Services and aim to reduce tobacco sales to those under the age ...