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... Banners hanging from the fence outside Northwestern University during a pro-Palestinian protest, Evanston, Illinois, April 27, 2024.

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October 12, 2025, Evanston, IL: A game between Northwestern Women's Soccer and View Photo · October 12, 2025, Evanston, IL: A game between ...

In this episode, The Daily reports on the Evanston Scream Club. The organization, which began in June of last year, started in Chicago and spread across the country in the following months. Its members discuss the community-building and stress release benefits of joining the club, and its founders explain how it began.  [screaming] JACK BAKER:...

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DB Rodrick Pleasant. Sep 27, 2025; Evanston, Illinois, USA; UCLA Bruins defensive back Rodrick. Rodrick Pleasant had seven total tackles, four of ...

... Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The Daily Northwestern staff. October 27, 2025. Throughout early fall, Evanston has experienced ...

Throughout early fall, Evanston has experienced an influx of activity from federal immigration agencies, with several community members taken by agents in September and October.  The city first informed residents it expected ICE agents in Evanston in a Sept. 8 statement. The agents’ presence is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Operation Midway Blitz, a...

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Volunteers stood with clipboards and tally sheets at more than 29 Evanston intersections throughout October, counting bicycles and scooters to assist the Public Works Agency in its update to the city’s Bike Plan. Project manager Chris Sous told City Council at its Sept. 8 meeting that the count will help Public Works identify corridors in...

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The doors to the Technological Institute opened Friday to Northwestern University Graduate Workers members in bright yellow shirts on their laptops, as they staged a campus-wide work-in from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  The work-in was the final day of NUGW’s “Workers Over Deals” Week of Action, which included events like walk-throughs, flyering and phonebanking....

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The rapidly growing trend of pop-up competitions for overcompensating men reached Northwestern over the weekend, in a competition to label the “most performative man.”  The collection of men in sweaters with chipped black nail polish gathered in Cornelia Lunt Park Saturday afternoon. Participants who brought novels like “The Feminine Mystique” and “My Lesbian Experience with...

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Under bold purple lights, students danced, struck dandiya sticks and sang mashups of pop and South Asian beats on Saturday evening at the South Asian Student Alliance’s Festival of Lights in Norris University Center’s McCormick Auditorium.  The event included performances from the Northwestern Raas and Garba, Brown Sugar, Ahana Dance Project, Bhangra, Deeva and SASA’s...

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Kellogg and McCormick Prof. Dashun Wang was recognized with the Advanced Science Young Innovator Award, which celebrates early-career researchers whose interdisciplinary approach translates discovery to real-world impact, according to an Oct. 22 Wiley news release.  Wiley, a New Jersey-based research firm, selected 11 researchers out of a pool of 472 applicants who will be honored...

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Wheelchair basketball at Northwestern has been a long time in the making, according to Alec Cabacungan (Medill ’24), who recently realized a longtime dream of bringing the sport to his alma mater and is now in the process of starting his own nonprofit. The first ever wheelchair basketball event was held this past Saturday.   Sam...

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After a busy weekend of competition, Northwestern’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs were not able to walk away with a win at Notre Dame or Michigan despite notching several top times nationally. The Wildcats first traveled to South Bend on Friday to take on the Fighting Irish in a dual meet. The men...

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With three minutes remaining in Northwestern’s Friday night matchup at No. 13 Michigan, senior goalkeeper Rafael Ponce de León stared down Wolverine midfielder Mitar Mitrovic in the penalty box.   Mitrovic’s penalty kick would all but give Michigan the win from behind, breaking the teams’ 1-1 stalemate. That win would be instrumental in maintaining the Wolverines’...

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Although Northwestern sported jaunty pink bows in its matches against Nebraska and Indiana this weekend, the team’s mood as it returns to Evanston might be less sprightly after being defeated by both teams in straight sets.   The Wildcats (13-9, 3-7 Big Ten) took on the undefeated No. 1 Cornhuskers (20-0, 10-0 Big Ten) in Lincoln...

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Top-seeded Glenbrook North overpowered the Wildkits 3-1 and captured the Evanston Sectional championship, punching a ticket to the Final Four on their ...

When junior forward Ashley Sessa deflected the ball off her stick, the stakes were already high in the third quarter of No. 2 Northwestern’s matchup against No. 13 Michigan. But during halftime, No. 20 Indiana sealed an overtime victory over No. 18 Ohio State, opening the door for the Wildcats (15-1, 7-0 Big Ten) to...

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Computers from the 1980s sat displayed on tables around the Falcon Room of the Evanston Public Library on Saturday. Nearby, a group of men, mostly between the ages of 50 and 80, talked about the TI-99/4A, a home computer discontinued by Texas Instruments in 1983.  The attendees gathered at EPL for the Chicago TI User...

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