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Committee votes to fund welcome center Social Services in favor of center for asylum seekers By ELLA JEFFRIES
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Evanston’s Social Services Committee unanimously voted to support city funding for a welcome center for immigrants Thursday. The proposed plan draws up to $500,000 from American Rescue Plan Act funds and would cover funding for the center from July 2022 to July 2023. The building plans come as about 1,200 asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago over the past month. The migrants have come in buses from Texas as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to send asylum seekers to other cities, including New York City and Washington D.C., in an attempt to pressure Biden to increase border controls. Mariana Osoria, senior vice president of partnerships and engagement at Family Focus, said the center intends to provide services to those arriving in Evanston. Resources
include interpretation and translation for advocacy, emergency cash assistance, employment readiness services and community education workshops to help individuals and families. “We truly want to engage with the community and hear what services they’re most interested in so that as we’re building the program, we’re identifying and responding to what some of the top priorities are,” Osoria said. The Chicago-based nonprofit organization focuses on nurturing families and children to help build social capital and achieve economic mobility through programs grounded in social justice and anti-racism. Family Focus currently has 10 community centers across the Chicago area, including one located next to the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center at 2010 Dewey Ave., where the welcome center will operate. In recent weeks, Family Focus has sent staff from one of its Chicago welcome centers to Evanston to support migrants from Texas, aiding them with finding
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If approved, construction on the new Ryan Field would begin after the 2023 football season.
NU shares plans for new Ryan Field
University plans for construction after 2023 football season ends By JACOB FULTON
daily senior staffer @jacobnfulton
Nearly a century after first opening to the public, Ryan
Field is gearing up for a major facelift. Northwestern announced plans Wednesday for a new football stadium, after facility namesakes Pat Ryan (Kellogg ‘59) and Shirley Ryan
(Weinberg ‘61) announced a record-breaking $480 million donation to the University in September 2021 that included funds earmarked for the renovation. NU’s Board of Trustees approved the design
last week, which is reported to cost around $800 million. The privately-funded facility has a projected maximum capacity of 35,000 — 12,000
» See RYAN FIELD, page 10
City Council votes to protect birds Norris to relocate New developments will be required to follow bird-safe standards
Starbucks to replace Dunkin’ on ground floor of student center
By NORA COLLINS
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New Evanston developments will be required to follow bird-safe standards in an effort to reduce bird collision deaths after City Council unanimously approved a safety ordinance designed in partnership with local group Bird-Friendly Evanston in September. Chicago leads the United States as the most dangerous city for migratory birds, according to a 2019 research study from Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology. Judy Pollock, president of the Chicago Audubon Society, said the study shows how critical it is for high-risk bird migration cities to pay attention to their windows. “Evanston is really just an extension of Chicago, from a bird’s perspective,” Pollock, also a member of both Bird Friendly Evanston and Evanston North Shore Bird Club, said. “Hundreds of different
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Starbucks Coffee By NICOLE MARKUS
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Migratory birds travel through the Evanston and Chicago area during their flight paths.
species are coming through Evanston and are using not only the lakefront and the canal but also just backyards.” Different types of glass and construction designs -– including transparent building corners or green roofs
— can constitute threats for birds, according to Libby Hill, an Evanston-based author and environmental activist. Commercial, multifamily and industrial projects will be required to lessen those
obstacles, among others, to increase protection for birds. “For me, it’s the beauty and the importance that we’re not destroying any living being on the earth, whether it be a
» See BIRDS, page 10
Norris University Center is shaking things up. A Starbucks Coffee will replace the Dunkin’ that was previously located on the ground floor of Norris starting in Spring Quarter. Shake Smart, a smoothie and sandwich place, will also open at the Starbucks’ current location on Norris’ first floor. “The Starbucks concept that we know on the first floor is pretty outdated, and the footprint is pretty small,” Norris Executive Director Corbin Smyth said. “The plan is to put in a full Starbucks experience that you would get in any of their newer stores.” According to Smyth, the transition will be “seamless.” The original Starbucks on the first floor will remain
open until construction is completed downstairs, which should happen in March 2023, he said. Though there will no longer be a Dunkin’ coffee shop on campus, which Smyth said stems from the fact the location had the least revenue of Norris’ retail eateries, Northwestern will sell doughnuts through Market at Norris. However, some students aren’t happy with Dunkin’s closing. “Their food products are better than Starbucks,” Weinberg junior Stephanie Shi said. “I also feel like it’s going to be super chaotic, because the line for Starbucks is super long and the line for MOD is super long, and because of how they’re oriented, I think it’s just going to be super messy.” Medill senior Maria Caamano said the lines at Starbucks have gotten increasingly long since Dunkin’s closing. Dunkin’ served as a quick lunch option between classes for Caamano, an option she
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