For the Winnetka resident, the annual Evanston Fourth of July Parade is more about connecting to the past than dressing up or watching fireworks. “Every year, mostly at the beginning of the parade, ...

Evanston residents start saving seats for the annual Fourth of July parade days beforehand. Photo by Will Hansen / North by Northwestern The Evanston Fourth of July Parade carries with it the ...

Photo by Logan Szymanski / North by Northwestern Members of the Chicago Highlanders Pipes and Drums march down Evanston streets holding the American, Scottish and Chicago Highland Pipe Band flags ...

U.S. flags border the streets, hang from scaffolding and wave in the hands of participants at Evanston’s 2025 Fourth of July parade. The flags often represent American pride and unity, but can also be ...

The cast of Dear England / Photo by Marc Brenner Dear England shoots and doesn’t quite score This nearly three-hour play about soccer, or rather, football (and toxic masculinity) was surprisingly ...

Tucked inside the Block Museum of Art right by Norris Student Center and Lake Michigan is the Block Cinema. The theater shows a wide variety of programs open to the public and functions as an ...

Wearing a colorful Native American outfit that she made herself, 81-year-old Hilda Marietta Williams could barely walk through the crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena without hearing greetings from her fellow ...

“It is perhaps the nature of the modern man to search ever inward as the outward becomes known and quantified. We expected to find truth, rationality, and something of natural, intrinsic elegance. We ...

Professor Joseph Holtgrieve shares news of the certificate offering to Northwestern alumni in a session called “Curious Life, Not Just a Career: The Northwestern Personal Development StudioLab.” Photo ...

My older sister is ordering our drinks at Iconica cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts. You order on the ground level, but we like to sit in the loft. The wallpaper is a map of the world up there, ...

Tom Cruise, the lead actor in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Image courtesy of IMDb. How does a relic from the 1960s become one of America’s biggest blockbuster franchises? Frankly, it still ...

Thanks to advances in AI technology, Spotify seems to have figured out that my mood is a rollercoaster, influenced by everything from the weather to the number of Canvas assignments due. The result?