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Local restaurants showcase food Restaurant Week features three Evanston eateries By JACOB FULTON
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The 13th annual Chicago Restaurant Week comes to an end this weekend, closing its biggest year yet. Coordinated by Choose Chicago, the 17-day event — running from Jan. 24 to Feb. 9 — featured over 430 restaurants located mostly in Chicago. However, around 50 participating restaurants came from Chicago suburbs. As part of the promotion, all restaurants offer multicourse meals at a fixed price: $24 for brunch or lunch, and $36 or $48 for dinner, depending on the meal. This year, three restaurants from the Evanston area participated. Farmhouse Evanston, Oceanique Restaurant and The Stained Glass all offered discounted meals to customers throughout the event. Mark Grosz, the owner of Oceanique Restaurant, said his restaurant has participated in the event for nearly a decade, and he always sees higher sales throughout Restaurant Week — increases that typically hover around 40 percent. He said this helps counterbalance the decrease in revenue that comes with
the winter season. “It’s a really great way to promote the restaurant to people that may not have been here or may not have heard of it,” Grosz said. “For some customers, it may be a little bit pricey for them and this allows them to try it at a discounted fare.” Grosz said he appreciates Chicago Restaurant Week, as he sees many people return for the event, and will also gain repeat customers who appreciate the quality of his food. Al Orendorff, the corporate communications director for Choose Chicago, said the event is just one way restaurants can build connections with their customers. “The opportunity for restaurants to strengthen and build upon relationships that many of them have in the communities and neighborhoods where they are operating is always good,” Orendorff said. “It also encourages neighborhood to neighborhood travel, which is also a good thing.” However, Orendorff said customers aren’t the only ones that see the positive effects of Chicago Restaurant Week. He said this event, and others like it, are more than the financial benefits they provide for owners. They also foster a sense of unity » See WEEK, page 6
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Mark Trahant gives a talk about political representation of Native Americans in media.
Trahant talks Native perspective
Indian Country Today editor discusses covering Indigenous communities By RAYNA SONG
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Indian Country Today editor Mark Trahant spoke in the McCormick Foundation
Center on Thursday about the political representation of Native Americans in the United States. The publication is a daily digital news platf or m that f ocuses on
Indigenous communities, covering national stories from a Native perspective. Part of that coverage relates to both local and national elections, subjects of Trahant’s research. Trahant said more than 100
Native Americans ran for state and national office during the 2018 midterms. In particular, two Native women, U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) and » See TRAHANT, page 6
Graduate students advocate for all-gender restrooms NU community activists demand equal access to bathrooms on campus, hang signs in protest By YUNKYO KIM
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Graduate students at the School of Communication started hanging up all-gender restroom signs in Annie May Swift Hall as an act of protest. They hope this can spur the University put pressure on the Evanston government to alter code number 2902.4.
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After a year of advocacy, Communication graduate students started hanging up all-gender restroom signs in Annie May Swift Hall as an act of protest. It’s not the first time that students have resorted to public activism to advocate for bathroom access for transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming members of the Northwestern community. A group of anonymous SESP students started to put up all-gender bathroom signs in Annenberg Hall during Fall Quarter. Seeing this, the Communication graduate students decided to add to the effort. “All of our bureaucratic advocacy wasn’t working,” Lauren Herold, a doctorate
student who has advocated for all-gender restrooms, said. “We want to preserve that trans and nonbinary students and faculty and staff deserve access to these bathrooms in our building.” The activists hope this action can urge the University to put pressure on the Evanston government to alter a portion of the city code, which states that “for public facilities that have multiple occupancy restrooms, signs shall indicate that the multiple occupancy restrooms are either designated for men or for women.” Alternatively, if a public building has one single-occupancy restroom, it is designated all-gender. If it has two single-occupancy restrooms, one is designated for males and the other, for females. If the building has three or more, the third bathroom and beyond are designated
all-gender, according to the city code. Annie May Swift and Annenberg Halls only have multiple-stall restrooms. Students and faculty who identify as transgender, non-binary or gender non-conforming have no choice but to use gendered restrooms or walk to the nearest accommodation. Rey Tang, a SESP junior who identifies as transgender, said she used all-gender restrooms while transitioning in her second year at Northwestern. While she did not have classes in Annie May Swift, she said she used to work at John J. Louis Hall, which did not all-gender restrooms and she had to tell a coworker that she had to leave the building to use one in Kresge Centennial Hall. “(It’s) blocking people from a basic right because of their » See BATHROOMS, page 6
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