While Main and Mudd Libraries offer plenty of quiet study spaces for students, sometimes the routine trudge to the library can start to feel a bit dismal. I knew I had spent too many consecutive days ...

Harrison Ball as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Cameron Kay as Jack Twist in Chicago Shakespeare’s North American premiere production of Brokeback Mountain. Photo courtesy of Kyle Flubacker. Warning: This ...

Chicago’s music history is expansive and rich, and two Bridgeport record stores, Let’s Boogie Records and Tapes and Bridgeport Records represent the city’s music past, present and future. Listen along ...

In Northwestern’s ultra-competitive academic environment, in my opinion and experience talking with other students, a lot of them prefer to take classes that get them easy As and boost their GPAs over ...

A member of the Mammoth Hockey Club, a local youth hockey team, handing out parade pamphlets. Photo courtesy of Arden Li. As the smell of cooked meat wafted past red-white-and-blue-clad passerby on ...

A shattered collarbone, rebuilt with screws and a metal plate, is the mark Weinberg first-year Ruby Becerra bears from high school wrestling. But the real threat to her career wasn’t the hard throw ...

The Computation + Journalism 2026 Symposium brought journalists, professors and students from across the nation together to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and its place in getting reliable ...

Willie the Wildcat with young Northwestern fans at Wildcat Alley, the designated fan fest area. Photo courtesy of Northwestern Magazine’s J.B. Spector. When Zoe Goodman (SESP ’19) stepped into Willie ...

The students of Kingsway Preparatory School perform for the Foster Senior Club at its Black History Month luncheon on Feb. 25, 2026. Photo by Maya Mukherjee / North by Northwestern Eva Coley walked ...

“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy.” With these famous words, classicist Emily Wilson opens her groundbreaking ...

I think I’m about as “baby gay” as you can get, so new of a queer person that this might be how my parents – who know almost everything about me – find out. And that has nothing to do with being ...

Alice Millar Chapel on Sheridan Road. Photo courtesy of Lucie van Kwawegen. “We use a screen and images, so we don’t have a hymnal because younger people are not as used to using those things. Now ...