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During COVID, Evanston hotels face obstacles By JACOB FULTON

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Last fall, David Reynolds was hesitant to sell his hotel. The Homestead, a boutique hotel, had been an Evanston mainstay in the hospitality industry since before the Great Depression. For nearly 40 years, Reynolds and his wife had owned the historic hotel, a mid-rise brick building located off Hinman Avenue, filled with uniquely decorated rooms and a collection of media created by former guests. He had hoped to keep the Homestead for a few years longer, but saw an opportunity to put it up on the market before retiring and took it. The hotel market is cyclical, he said, » See HOTELS, page 8

Students react to slow election results Women’s suffrage, Definitive winner not called on Election Night after national delays By JAMES POLLARD and DAISY CONANT

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It might be days until Americans know who will next take the Oval Office. As election data slowly rolled in Tuesday night, it became increasingly apparent that Democratic hopes for a decisive landslide had given way to an unclear path to 270 electoral votes. With incumbent President Donald Trump winning Florida, former Vice President Joe Biden up in Arizona, and other battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania counting overwhelming numbers of ballots into Wednesday, the race was too close to project a winner. “We feel good about where

we are,” Biden said to supporters in Wilmington, Del. just before midnight CST. “We really do. I’m here to tell you tonight, we believe we’re on track to win this election.” Meanwhile, Tr u m p claimed he’d be heading to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop voting across the country, falsely telling unmasked supporters in the East Room of the W hite House at around 1:30 a.m. CST, “As far as I am concerned, we have already won.” By that point, millions of votes had yet to be counted in key states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. No national outlet had called the race because neither candidate reached the necessary threshold. With nearly 100 million votes having been cast before Nov. 3, the question entering Election Day was how much

of the final tally would be counted after polls closed. In the week leading up to Nov. 3, the Supreme Court allowed extensions of mail-in ballot reception in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, meaning votes could continue to be counted three and nine days after the election, respectively. But the Supreme Court left the door open for cases to be brought again. In those rulings, it decided there was no justification for the process to be expedited before Election Day, according to Pritzker Prof. Dan Rodriguez, the former Law School dean. The campaigns have been bolstering their legal teams and preparing for a bitterly disputed race — a prospect made all the more likely after Tuesday. Before the polls could even close on Tuesday,

the 2020 election was the most litigated campaign in recent memory. Though Pritzker Prof. Michael Kang said he expects the amount of election-related litigation will ultimately hit record numbers, the prospect of postelection litigation largely depends on the margins of victory, he added. “It’s conditional on how close the races are, because that is gonna determine whether it makes sense for the losing candidate to bring these kinds of challenges,” Kang said Tuesday afternoon. “If you assume Trump loses a state like Pennsylvania, or Minnesota, or North Carolina, and it looks like the ballots that are received after Election Day — but during the time before the extended » See REACTIONS, page 10

100 years later How Evanston women paved path to voting rights By MAIA SPOTO

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On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, became the law of the land. The real timeline of women voting in Evanston is a little more complicated. Decades before the amendment was ratified, Illinois women, led in part by Evanston residents, started voting on “partial ballots” masterminded through a series of legal loopholes. Lori Osborne, director of the Evanston Women’s History Project at the Evanston History Center,

said the move pressured other states into following suit. Some scholars say racism within the movement tainted the fight for the vote, with leaders like Woman’s Christian Temperance Union president Frances Willard accused of leaving Black women behind in their activism. Over the past century, Evanston women have continued pressing for voter education and participation. Now, they’re mobilizing the vote in advance of Tuesday’s election and looking back at the legacy of the women who propelled them to the polls.

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AROUND TOWN Many voters met with easier lines on Election Day By DELANEY NELSON and ANDREW MYERS the daily northwestern @delaneygnelson

As polls opened at 6 a.m., Evanston voters showed up sporadically to polling locations across the city, for the most part avoiding the long lines seen in other parts of the country. The city’s 26 polling places, spread across nine wards, marked a significant expansion from the lone early voting location at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. For the most part, the locations stayed quiet, with a slow stream of voters arriving in person to cast their ballots. Despite warnings of long lines due to social distancing and calls to remain in line to vote no matter how long it took, some voters said they were not concerned about potential wait times or fears associated with COVID-19. Virginia Robbins, an Evanston resident who cast her vote at the Robert Crown Community Center, said she would do “whatever it takes to vote” regardless of lines or COVID-19. At the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, resident Jim Nolan didn’t wait in any lines to vote, and said the process went by quickly. He said he voted in person on Election Day as a precaution, partially because of President Donald Trump’s threats to delegitimize mail-in voting. “I always like to see the most information possible,” Nolan said. “I was actually really nervous about Trump’s throwing away of mail-in ballots.” Similar concerns were directed towards the United States Postal Service, which has been criticized for its delivery delays. Darlene Cannon, a candidate for alderman of Evanston’s 2nd Ward who was waiting outside the McGaw YMCA, talked about her concerns surrounding mail-in ballots. “I thought about voting earlier and I got a mail-in ballot, but after I saw everything that was going on in the news with people’s mail-in ballots — where they weren’t getting anywhere — I just thought it would be better to do it in

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On Election Day, Evanston polling locations were mostly quiet, which some attribute to an increased use in early voting and mail-in ballots.

person,” Cannon said. Cameron ‘Cam’ Davis, Democratic candidate for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, waited outside the Robert Crown Community Center with his family to talk to voters and show his kids “how democracy works,” but didn’t see much traffic. Davis himself voted during the early voting period, when he said lines were much longer and the weather was much colder than on Election Day. Throughout the day on Tuesday, weather remained in the 60s and sunny. Despite the trend of short lines at most locations, some polling centers saw significant

traffic. The Fleetwood-Jourdain Center, located in the 5th Ward, was busier than other polling locations around the city. Evanston resident Eugene Dykes was at this location collecting signatures for 5th Ward aldermanic candidate Carolyn Murray. While Dykes said it was quiet in the morning, he said throughout the day the rate of voters picked up. Christa Shavers, who helped collect signatures at Fleetwood-Jourdain for her fiance, 5th Ward aldermanic candidate Bobby Burns, said since she had arrived mid-morning, the location had been steadily busy all day. The Burns crew brought masks, pens, hand warmers and water

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for residents. State Reps. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston), Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) and State Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) also stopped by Fleetwood-Jourdain in the afternoon to talk to voters. Gong-Gershowitz said that while they had been seeing a lot of first-time voters, the quietness of polling locations indicated the importance of early voting and mail-in ballots in this election. As of Nov. 2, 11,218 votes were cast at the Civic Center, Evanston’s early voting location. “Today we’re out because we’re hoping for change,” Gong-Gershowitz said. She later added, “The sky is blue — let’s hope the map is blue tonight, too.” Earlier in the day, there was confusion about whether or not people could vote at the Civic Center for day-of voting. Kimberly Richardson, deputy city manager, was at the site and said the last day to drop off ballots at this location was yesterday. She said today the site was only open for staff, and was exclusively an earlyvoting location. After being turned away from both the Civic Center and the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center this morning when trying to drop off her mail-in ballot, Amie Connor said she was directed to go to the Skokie Courthouse. Some voters who showed up to the Civic Center to vote and drop off mail-in ballots, like resident Mary Rubino, expressed frustration with what they saw as a miscommunication from the city. Rubino said the city’s communication was disorganized, calling the city “a joke.” “The city of Evanston gives us news for everything,” Rubino said. “They even gave us instructions on how to trick or treat. Why didn’t they give us information about mail-in ballots?” The bottom line for voters who showed on Election Day, resident Phebe Tinker said, is that they “want to make their vote count.” delaneynelson2023@u.northwestern.edu andrewmyers2022@u.northwestern.edu

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ON CAMPUS Alumna works on Florida outreach

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The minute President Donald Trump was elected four years ago, Solis Doyle (Weinberg ’20) knew she would work on his 2020 challenger’s campaign. A Florida Hispanic outreach associate at Biden For President, Doyle works 13-plus hour days engaging community leaders to get out the vote for former Vice President Joe Biden across Florida’s Latinx population. She joined her coalition after working as an intern for six months at the Biden campaign’s national headquarters. Doyle’s parents both worked in the Democratic space, her father in policy and her mother as a strategist. Growing up in Washington, D.C., she said she understood that government, if done well, can be essentially good. Trump, she said, has “made a mockery” of that ideal. “The way I felt on election night in 2016, that’s what keeps me going,” Doyle said. “This job is really, really hard. It’s really exhausting. All I do is this election. But another four years of Donald Trump is truly a nightmare, to me and to so many Americans. We’ve got to keep going. We’ve got to win.” As one of the youngest members of her team, Doyle’s also one of the most technologically savvy, so she’s the person who “makes things happen,” she said. Lou Grossman, Florida seniors vote leader with Biden for President, said Doyle’s computer skills have given her responsibilities outside of her original jurisdiction on the campaign. Alongside her work with the Florida Hispanic outreach coalition, Doyle also spends much of her time supporting groups on Biden’s campaign that mobilize seniors, veterans and union members as they navigate virtual organizing. “It’s challenging to work with a different generation,” Grossman said. “Juggling the technology. This is the first virtual campaign in history. We’re making history. When we win, we’ll really make history. But she keeps her cool well. She juggles very well.” With the campaign, Doyle plans phone banks,

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roundtables and social media livestreams to mobilize voters. Her key messages include emphasizing Biden’s commitment to accountable leadership and protecting democracy. She also helps break down disinformation that might be spreading throughout the Latinx community. For a time, WhatsApp groups with thousands of members were spreading fake articles with misleading information about voting, Biden’s campaign and the campaigns of other Democrats down the ballot. In response, Doyle and her team started breaking into Latinx media markets, combatting disinformation through messages over radio, WhatsApp and other platforms in ways the team deems “culturally competent,” she said. Campaign culture, Doyle said, is exhausting. About a month ago, Doyle posted a wall of sticky notes counting down to Nov. 3. She said her roommates watched her stick the numbers on her wall and wondered, “Are you okay?” One of those roommates, Rachael Packard

(Communication ’20), said it’s tough for Doyle to find time to relax. But Doyle and her roommates “make it work” by watching reality TV and Schitt’s Creek, Packard said. “(Doyle) is rather modest,” Packard said. “If she told you she’s working hard, I promise it’s 18 times that. She really is giving her heart and soul and every minute of her day to this campaign.” Doyle said she doesn’t know what will happen after Nov. 3. If Biden wins, she said she hopes to stay in D.C. and see his plans through, either working in his administration or through an advocacy agency. Until then, she’s keeping her head down and pressing on. “You know how in Evanston everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s so cold in the winter time, but we’re all cold together, so it’s okay?’” Doyle said. “It’s a very similar thing to that. Yeah, it sucks. It’s cold. But it’s okay, because everyone’s cold.”

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ELECTION COVERAGE 2020 Gov. Pritzker’s Fair Tax Amendment fails to pass By DELANEY NELSON

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With 93 percent of votes counted, it appears the Illinois Fair Tax Amendment did not pass in the general election. Gov. J.B. Pritkzer’s ballot initiative garnered 45 percent support, falling short of the 60 percent threshold required to pass. Fifty-five percent of Illinois voters rejected the amendment. The Fair Tax Amendment would have introduced a progressive income tax in the state, gradually increasing tax rates for those who make $250,000 and above. As an amendment to the Illinois Constitution, the referendum would require a supermajority to pass. There is still a chance the amendment could pass if numbers reach a simple majority of all votes cast. Without the Fair Tax Amendment, the state would continue to mandate a flat tax, under which everyone pays the same income tax rate of 4.95 percent, regardless of income. “We are encouraged by the Illinoisans who cast their ballots in support of the Fair Tax despite the onslaught of misinformation and lies from those

who were desperate to defeat the amendment,” Quentin Fulks of the Vote Yes For Fairness campaign said in a statement. “Until every ballot is counted, we will stand with the Illinoisans who cast a ballot by mail, early and in-person today to ensure their voices are heard.” On Election Day, Beth and Dan Tucker stood outside the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center polling location handing out flyers about the Fair Tax and encouraging residents to vote yes on the referendum. They said in light of the state’s financial troubles, this amendment provides at least some solution. “It’s far from a perfect solution for our state’s fiscal problems, but it’s a start,” Dan Tucker said. Supporters of the amendment argued that the change in the state’s income tax structure would allow for a more equitable way for the state to create revenue, while opponents said increasing taxes would drive people out of the state without fixing any of the state’s fiscal problems. During a coronavirus briefing Tuesday, Pritkzer, who had poured millions into the ballot initiative, had expressed optimism that Fair Tax would pass. delaneynelson2023@u.northwestern.edu

Schakowsky reelected to House of Representatives

By JACOB FULTON

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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) was reelected for a 12th term in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Schakowsky, who has represented Evanston since she was first elected to the House in 1998, was called the winner by the Associated Press at 8:55 p.m. on Tuesday night. With an estimated 96 percent of votes reported at 10 p.m., Schakowsky received 67.5 percent of votes; her challenger, Republican Sargis

Sangari got 32.5 percent of the votes. Currently, Schakowsky serves as a Senior Chief Deputy Whip in the House, and is a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Sangari, her opponent, served over 20 years in the U.S. Army, and emphasized economic development in his campaign. “I don’t think there really are any safe seats anymore, so I’m really grateful to the people, the voters of the 9th Electoral District, who reelected me,” Schakowsky told the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday night. fulton@u.northwestern.edu

Gabel, Gong-Gershowitz secure two more years By JACOB FULTON

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State Reps. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) and Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) were reelected to the Illinois House of Representatives Tuesday night, securing their spots for two more years. Both candidates were the incumbents in their races, with Gong-Gershowitz holding her seat since 2019 and Gabel holding her seat since 2010. Gong-Gershowitz faced two challengers: Yesoe Yoon was the Republican Party’s nominee for the seat, and Christopher Kruger ran for the Green Party. Some of Gong-Gershowitz’s main points of focus have been reproductive rights, the expansion

of health care and gun control. Conversely, Yoon wanted to eliminate taxpayer-funded abortions and implement cuts in all aspects of state government to reduce Illinois’ fiscal troubles. Gong-Gershowitz received 62.7 percent of votes with 97 percent of districts reporting as of 11:15 p.m. Yoon received 34.5 percent of the votes, and Kruger got 2.8 percent. As of 11:15, Gabel received 70.8 percent of votes with 96 percent of the vote reporting. Her opponent, Sean Matlis, an Independent, won 29.2 percent of the vote. Matlis ran on an anticorruption platform, and Gabel focused on human services and the environment. “The sky is blue — let’s hope the map is blue tonight, too,” Gong-Gershowitz told The Daily Tuesday afternoon. At least in her district, it was. fulton@u.northwestern.edu

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Durbin secures Senate seat for fifth term By SAM HELLER

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was re-elected to represent Illinois in the Senate, a position he has held since 1997, on Tuesday night. The Associated Press called the election at 7:00 p.m. Durbin won, receiving 52.3 percent of the votes with 74 percent of precincts reporting. Republican candidate Mark Curran came in second, receiving 40.5 percent. Durbin ran against Green Party candidate David Black, Libertarian Danny Malouf and Willie Wilson of the Willie Wilson Party. Going into the election, Durbin was heavily favored to win, as has been the case in each of his five elections. Durbin has acted as the Democratic Party Whip since 2005 and will likely continue to hold this position over the next six years. “Thank you, Illinois,” Durbin tweeted Tuesday night after his victory was announced. “I’m honored to continue this fight for our families, our values, and our future.” During this election cycle, Durbin ran on a platform heavily focused on affordable health care. Durbin has long been a proponent of improving health care, strongly supporting the Affordable Care Act, penning legislation to ban smoking on commercial airlines and winning a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Lung Association. In a September

interview with the Chicago Tribune, he said affordable health care has “never been more important” because of COVID-19. Last month, Durbin, a member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, criticized the Amy Coney Barrett nomination, stating Trump nominated her in order to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. Durbin also voted to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial in February 2020. Another issue of importance to Durbin is fair immigration policies. Durbin introduced the Dream Act to the Senate in 2001 and has vowed to continue fighting for Dreamers to remain in the country in his upcoming election. Durbin also critiqued Trump’s poor COVID-19 response, economic growth, criminal justice reform and gun law reform during this election cycle. Most of the criticism that was raised against Durbin came from Curran, who criticized Durbin’s long time in office, calling him a “career politician.” Curran, while far behind Durbin in the polls, was the most likely candidate of Durbin’s competitors to win. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Curran has yet to officially concede. “Dick Durbin’s going to meet his maker soon enough,” Curran said in a video call with reporters. “If I was Dick Durbin I wouldn’t dance too much with this victory because he’s not done right by the people of Illinois, and he’s going to be judged on that by the ultimate judge.” samuelheller2022@u.northwestern.edu

Foxx reelected in highly contested State’s Attorney race By SAM HELLER

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In a highly-contested race, Kim Foxx was reelected as Cook County State’s Attorney on Tuesday night. With 93 percent of votes counted, Foxx received 52.6 percent of the vote. Republican nominee Pat O’Brien conceded the election to Foxx at 10:30 p.m., receiving around 40 percent of the vote. Libertarian Brian Dennehy received just over 6 percent of the vote. Since Foxx was elected to the position in 2016, she has garnered a reputation of working toward criminal justice reforms and decriminalizing drug charges, shifting away from petty crimes and toward more substantial unlawful activity. This year’s race was much tighter than in 2016, when she won with 72 percent of the vote and her Republican opponent only received 28 percent. Tuesday’s results were impacted by the Jussie Smollett controversy from last year — a case O’Brien used to attack Foxx throughout the election cycle. In January of 2019, Smollett, an actor known for his role on the television show “Empire,” had been indicted for filing a false police report. He said he was the victim of a violent racist and homophobic hate crime, but evidence indicated Smollett had staged the incident.

Foxx dropped all criminal charges against Smollett in March 2019, angering her opponents. This became the crux of O’Brien’s campaign, whose slogan was “Fire Kim Foxx,” and called her unfit to be the State’s Attorney. “Hopefully the next four years will find us in a better position than we are now,” O’Brien said in a speech he gave Tuesday night after Foxx was announced winner. Foxx said she wants to spend the next four years continuing her mission of improving the Chicago criminal justice system. Foxx plans to reform the criminal justice system by continuing her work in exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals and enacting bail reforms. She also plans to continue decreasing violent crimes and incarcerations in the county. Another part of her platform has been addressing the civil unrest in Chicago over the past summer, and working to address issues of race in the criminal justice system head on. “I know as a county we are better with the tough conversations about race,” she said after winning the election. “We won’t have to recycle the fear and terror we saw this summer, and not do the easy thing which is to be distracted by one issue and not talk about the bigger one.” samuelheller2022@u.northwestern.edu

Underwood awaits final vote count as Oberweis claims win By JACOB FULTON

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In a close-fought race to continue her hold over a seat in a predominantly red district, U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Naperville) may have fallen short in a race that continues to be too close to call. Underwood faced off against Republican Jim Oberweis for Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, and Oberweis claimed victory on Wednesday. Underwood’s campaign, however, has not conceded, and is waiting for more mailin ballots to confirm the results of the race. As of Wednesday night, less than 1,000 votes separated the two. “Today, after contacting every county clerk across the 14th District, I am pleased to say that, with only a handful of outstanding ballots, it appears that I have won a tough-fought campaign against Lauren Underwood,” Oberweis said in a video posted to his Facebook page. “This race has been an uphill battle to say the least. Lauren Underwood has enjoyed a tremendous financial advantage, having outspent

me 4-1. But despite all of the money she spent, we prevailed.” Across all counties in the district, and in both in-person and mail-in voting, votes for the candidates have continued to split fairly evenly. However, Underwood’s campaign remains confident that once all votes are counted, the incumbent candidate will prevail. Currently, an unknown number of late mailin ballots have yet to be counted, and could tip the scales in favor of either candidate. On Tuesday, Illinois officials estimated between 300,000 and 400,000 requested mail-in ballots have yet to be returned across the state — many of which may be from voters in Underwood’s district. “Jim Oberweis doesn’t get to call this election: the voters do,” Underwood’s campaign said in a statement late Wednesday afternoon. “There are thousands of votes that have yet to be counted. We appreciate every voter who made their voice heard, and our county clerks and election officials must count every ballot in as expeditious and transparent a manner as is possible.” fulton@u.northwestern.edu

Daily file photos by Melanie Lust (bottom left), Paige Leskin (top right), Jason Beeferman (bottom right), James Pollard (top left), Owen Stidman (middle left); Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune (middle right)

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‘Mercy in the Museum’ explores justice, inequalities By MELINA CHALKIA

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The Block Museum of Art is offering a virtual discussions series based on One Book One Northwestern selection “Just Mercy,” exploring themes of justice, racism, inequality, gender and mass incarceration. These 30-minute lunchtime discussions are inspired by Bryan Stevenson’s book, which narrates the activist’s account as a lawyer who strives to end mass incarceration and bring justice to imprisoned individuals who were treated unfairly by the justice system. Through these “Mercy in the Museum” discussions, the Block staff hope to teleport the audience to an artistic realm of artworks that resonate with themes of “Just Mercy,” with the next two

discussions forthcoming on Nov. 20 and Dec. 11. Each week, a different member of Block selects one artwork from the museum’s collection and guides a discussion on how the artists use different media to communicate themes related to the book. Participants have the opportunity to listen to the host’s analysis, ask questions and share multiple perspectives. Corinne Granof, the academic curator at Block, said that a main objective of the series is to draw thematic connections to “Just Mercy” and bring out Stevenson’s heroism. “We wanted to kind of honor (Stevenson) too, and pick up on the themes that were really major threads in his book like justice and compassion,” Granof said. The artworks are selected from the Block’s permanent collection and are accessible at the museum’s website in an object package. The collection covers a wide range of artists and artworks across time, culture and medium.

Lindsay Bosch, Block’s senior manager of marketing and communications, said the museum strives to create a collection that reflects the Northwestern community. “The idea of coordinating and amplifying our partnership with ‘One Book One Northwestern’ offered a thematic through line that allowed the museum to take part in conversations that are going on throughout the campus,” Bosch said. Erin Northington, Block’s associate director of campus and community education and engagement, said the intended purpose of the events is to reflect current discussions at NU and around the world and establish connections between the artworks and the present. Northington added the discussions are also a great opportunity for students to connect with Block staff and view the museum as an important resource for reflection outside the classroom. Curatorial Associate Melanie Garcia Sympson,

who led the first discussion, said that these critical issues are highlighted in discussions aimed at enhancing the experience one would have in the normal in-person gallery tours. Sympson added that Zoom magnifies the experience of visiting an exhibition, as it stimulates in-depth evaluation of the artworks. “One of the advantages of this virtual environment is being able to have 40 or 50 people look at this really small part of an image all at once, and zoom in on that detail,” Sympson said. According to Bosch, as the Block celebrates its 40-year milestone, Block staff and students come together to question history and embrace art’s impact in the world, through these discussions. “We wanted to spend the 40th anniversary thinking about what the collection is and how it’s changing to reflect our changing world,” Bosch said. melinachalkia2023@u.northwestern.edu

Movies in the park take on new meaning during COVID By APRIL LI

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This summer and fall, Evanston residents flocked to Starlight Movies in the Park, ready for a safe night filled with movies under the stars with their families. Organized by the Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services, the Starlight Series screens movies in parks throughout different wards in the city every Saturday at dusk, and more frequently in August. This year, attendees are required to adhere to public health guidelines, including social distancing and wearing face coverings. Even though the series typically takes place only in August, coordinator Michelle Tompkins said the department extended it this year as an opportunity for people to leave their houses and safely gather amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. “(Starlight Movies in the Park) have probably played a more important role than ever before,”Tompkins said. “They have allowed that socialization aspect that everybody is just so wanting.” Tompkins manages and operates the equipment, in addition to selecting some of the movies. She said she tailors her choices to each location, looking at the demographics of audiences in past years. In South Evanston’s Baker Park, for example, Tompkins said, she usually picks cartoons and children’s movies because of the younger families she typically sees. “There’s no rhyme or rhythm to it,” though, Tompkins said. “There’s no algorithm I use, other than just a feeling that I have.”

Along with popular children’s movies and blockbusters, Tompkins has also chosen films that can appeal to older audiences, such as “Just Mercy,” the film adaptation of lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson’s book by the same name, which is this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection. Tompkins added she hopes the movie choices can encourage college students, couples without children

and retired couples to attend as well. “Movies in the Park is not just for families,” she said. “It’s not just for people who have children. It should be something that brings people out, that allows people of every age and demographic to come out.” Evanston resident Mike Greenstone attended multiple screenings this year after seeing the event on Facebook, sometimes with his wife and mother.

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Starlight Concert in 2016. Organized by the Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services, Starlight Movies in the Park screens throughout different wards in the city every Saturday at dusk, with exceptions in August.

He said the event provides a relaxing outdoor activity. “It’s always fun to see other people around, even if you don’t know them,” he said. As a frequent movie-goer, Greenstone said the outdoor showings provide a different experience from movie theaters, especially during the pandemic. At the theater, he said, it’s harder to social distance and he would have to worry about ventilation. The Starlight Movies in the Park series also gave him an opportunity on Aug. 8 to see “Trolls World Tour,” a movie that had a limited theater release. “It was fun and something organized I could go do,” he said. “They had a nice big park where there was plenty of room to distance.” Jaquelyn Lowe, another Evanston resident, has been bringing her children to Starlight Movies for many years. She said the outdoor events provide a treat for her kids because they get to stay up late and watch movies with their friends. “For my kids, it’s magical,” she said. “It’s a nice excuse for everyone to get together and talk and eat fun food together and do something together in a way that feels like family.” The next and final Movie in the Park of the year will be “Moana,” which will screen Nov. 7 at Twiggs Park. Tompkins said the Starlight Series is unique to Evanston, offering high-quality programming for free. She said she enjoys watching families bring their dinners and reconnecting with people at the movie screenings. “Seeing the joy and just how peaceful people are, for me, that’s the epitome of why I do what I do,” she said. “It can bring people together.” aprilli2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Students begin competing in NU ‘Survivor’ season two By REBECCA AIZIN

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CBS’s hit television show “Survivor” tests competitors’ physical, mental and social strength by subjecting them to grueling challenges and pitting them against one another in an exciting, action-packed season. Northwestern’s adaptation of the show is no different. NU’s “Survivor” wrapped up its first season, the second half of which was filmed on Zoom, last school year, and are now in the fourth week of filming for season two. This time there are 18 competitors and the competition is entirely virtual, with the exception of a few in-person challenges for those in Evanston. While doing the show on an online platform was not what Weinberg senior and executive producer Carson Knoer had in mind, he said filming season two has been very successful so far, due largely to the dedication of this year’s cast. Since getting cast in the real show is incredibly challenging, giving both NU students who grew up watching “Survivor” and those who have not seen an episode an opportunity to participate in the popular franchise was unique and special. “We’re giving them an opportunity to live their dreams, to challenge themselves and see if they’re as good at the social manipulation that they expect they will be,” Knoer said. “I know just the ‘clout’ that comes with winning is the true prize, like the winner of season one is highly regarded.” While season one is being edited and set to release

in early 2021, Knoer and the rest of the production team have been busy coming up with engaging challenges that could be performed remotely. So far, these have included everything from puzzles and fitness tasks to making haunted houses out of materials in contestants’ homes and blending hot dogs into smoothies. One of the members of the cast, who wished to remain anonymous so as to not give away her strategy, said the experience has pushed her more than she expected, and she spends the majority of her free time coming up with tactics to keep her in the fight. Right now her main techniques include growing close with her fellow contestants in order to build strong social bonds. “You want to connect with people past a surface level interaction and don’t want to come off as a huge threat,” she said. “There’s a few people who have already painted themselves as schemers, so a strategy is to use those people as shields so the target is not on their backs.” While host and Communication sophomore Kylie Boyd did not reach her dreams of participating on the actual show, she happily “settled” for NU’s version. As a contestant on last year’s season and a host on this one, Boyd has certainly built her “Survivor” repertoire. Her fear? Living up to the “legendary host” Jeff Probst. While Boyd has mimicked Probst’s catchphrases and “Joutfits,” which Boyd describes as Jeff Probst’s outfits, Boyd aspires to bring something of her own to the role, she said. “We’re not trying to just copy him, we want to bring our own aspects so that we don’t feel we need to do it

the same exact way,” Boyd said. “We’re definitely trying to match his charisma and energy, but it’s a tall order.” Knoer said the same thing drives participants both at NU and on the real show: the desire to prove themselves. The show gives people an opportunity like no other to explore themselves and their manipulation tactics. “Survivor gives you the opportunity to be someone

you can’t be in your regular life,” Knoer said. “You’re encouraged to be manipulative or to be strategic, and getting the opportunity to see how well you can control narrative and the actions of other people to benefit yourself is really interesting and an insight to your skill set that you can’t get any other way.” rebeccaaizin2023@u.northwestern.edu

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A group of contestants meet over Zoom. NU’s “Survivor” is currently in its fourth week of filming.

Wirtz Center to present first all-Black directing cohort By OLIVIA ALEXANDER

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This weekend, the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts will present Northwestern’s first all-Black directing cohort in a reading of the Alice Childress play “Wine in the Wilderness.” The Zoom reading is the first of three in “Visions and Voices, a Black Playwrights’ Reading Series,” and will be available on-demand on Wirtz’s website the evening of Nov. 6 through Nov. 8. The series will feature three plays centering around themes such as anti-Blackness, police brutality and the celebration of Black lives. “Wine in the Wilderness,” set during race riots in 1960s Harlem, tells the story of artist Bill Jameson as he creates a triptych. On the left, he painted Black girlhood, in the center, “Wine in The Wilderness,” an African queen, and on the right, he hopes to paint Black womanhood. Jameson believes Tommy, a “down and out woman,” will be the perfect model for his piece. But throughout the evening, she challenges all the assumptions he holds. Director and first-year graduate student Jasmine Gunter said the play is all about first impressions and the assumptions we make about people.

“It’s a beautiful and empowering story about the spectrum of Blackness,” Gunter said. “We’re not all just a monolith, but we’re a spectrum that has no end, and this community holds a vast amount of identities that you can’t put in boxes.” The play examines the intersectionality of race, gender and class to address the oppression of Black women. People are starting to understand the layers of their identities, Gunter said. The play highlights such thinking as well as today’s discussion of protecting Black women, who Gunter said are often undervalued as people.

First-year graduate student Elliot Marvin Sims plays Bill, an intellectual and narcissistic artist. He said the work has reminded him to cherish the Black women in his life. “Black women are the backbone of my community and culture personally,” Sims said, “and there’s a respect and value that must be upheld to that.” Sims called the play a “PSA” for himself as a Black man. Describing the story as one of empathy, he said it’s a reminder to be aware of the lens from which people view the world. Jazzlyn Luckett, first-year graduate student, plays

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Lighting design idea for “Wine in the Wilderness.” The play takes place in Bill Jameson’s Harlem studio.

‘Imagine U’ recreates musicals for families By JANE WIERTEL

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As the virtual storybook opens, a snowflake covered screen with a picture of a castle appears. Music from the movie “Frozen” plays, and an actor wearing a straw hat and suspenders begins to narrate. The words come to life, and the characters start to dance. This is Imagine U Storytime. “We didn’t expect it to be this wildly fun and successful as it has been, and it is delightful,” Lynn Kelso, Imagine U’s founder said. After classes switched to a virtual format in Spring Quarter of last year and the theater doors closed, Kelso said the Imagine U program, which produces musicals and plays geared toward children and families, needed

to pivot to remain in-touch with its audiences. Thus, Imagine U Storytime was born. At first, only theater faculty members were telling the ten-minute video stories as students worked to adjust to online classes. Now, Imagine U’s cast has expanded to involve undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and even alumni — last spring, alumni living in New York put on three stories, including a rendition of Road Dahl’s “James and the Giant Peach,” from New York City, Kelso said. As the number of creators involved with this program increased, so too did the number of activities and engagements linked with each video. Kelso said the team wanted these videos to be more interactive for young audiences and their families so they were not just watching them, but also participating and customizing the experience.

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Arts and Media Producer Stephen Lewis designed and created this graphic that is featured in the introduction of all Imagine U Storytime videos.

As a result, the faculty and students crafted activities and guides for children’s engagement, providing coloring book sheets and puppet-making instructions, for example, Kelso said. The program has seen many developments since its debut in the spring. Video director Natalie Rarick said the program will continue to develop as it moves into its third season this winter. With the addition of an editing team composed of many RTVF students, the quality of the videos has elevated, Rarick said. Additionally, she said because the team created filming and editing reference documents for their shows this quarter, the process itself has become much more consistent. “We learned a lot from this quarter,” Rarick said. “At first we thought, ‘This will work great’ and then, of course, we ran into so many problems and things that we had to work with on the spot. But we’ve really grown through that process.” The Imagine U Storytime program will only continue to grow in its content and also its creativity, Kelso said. In a couple of weeks, she said the team will put on an original piece titled “The Elephant in the Zoom,” chronicling the story of a Zoom classroom. Theater Department Chair Rives Collins said he hopes Imagine U will still continue once the need for a virtual format passes. There are so many sides of this art-form to love, he said. Imagine U Storytime celebrates the creativity of faculty and students while also nurturing imagination and developing empathy in young people, Collins said. “It doesn’t mean that we won’t do plays again,” Collins said. “But I think we’ve discovered something that people are hungry for.” janewiertel2022@u.northwestern.edu

Tommy, a factory worker whose home has burnt down. According to Luckett, Black womanhood is not about being any one thing, but it’s possible to one day have “regalness” and to another day be a down and out woman, an idea emphasized in rehearsal by Gunter. “I believe that in Tommy there are all of these things,” Luckett said. “There is Black innocence, there is a little bit of the ‘messed up chick,’ there is also Wine in the Wilderness, and when you have all of those things together in one individual, you get a fully fleshed out, three-dimensional human being. It’s when you start to separate those things that you get a stereotype.” Luckett hopes to reach Black women in the audience who realize that those aspects of themselves are not mutually exclusive and hopes they see the beauty of all of these things. Gunter said she wants the audience of the reading to walk away with a sense of admiration for Black women around them. “Pay more respect and value to the Black women in your life,” Gunter said. “Whether you are a Black male, whether you’re a white male, or white female, we deserve the attention and respect and value of a human being that sometimes is not presented in real life or media.” oliviaalexander2024@u.northwestern.edu

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with strong upswings only coming once every 10 years or so. In October 2019, Reynolds sold the Homestead to Graduate Hotels, a chain focused on markets in college towns like Evanston. The deal guaranteed Reynolds and his wife a strong financial opportunity, and he didn’t know when another offer would come. Just five months later, COVID-19 struck, causing a recession comparable to the Depression. Hotels across the nation saw sharp decreases in revenue as travelers canceled their plans. As a result, many notable locations have shut down, either temporarily or permanently, even Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton, which had previously only closed its doors after its original building burned down in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. Hotels across the nation have been dealt a blow by COVID-19 that could be impossible to survive. According to a September survey from the American Hotel and Lodging Association, two-thirds of hotels will only last six more months without more government aid, and 68 percent are still working with less than half of their typical staff. As COVID-19 relief package negotiations have stalled in Congress, the AHLA has called on legislators to pass additional aid bills supporting the hospitality industry — but efforts have been unsuccessful so far. Though some chains may have the infrastructure to survive without aid, the pandemic is hitting locally owned hotels particularly hard. Even hotel chains that survive might not do so without significant losses. This phenomenon has been especially prevalent in Evanston, where multiple hotels have suffered extensive losses and temporary closures. For Reynolds, any hesitation he felt when he put his hotel on the market evaporated after seeing the state of the industry just a few months later. “We miss running it, but we feel very lucky to have sold it when we did, and to have sold it to someone who has the wherewithal to get through this pandemic,” he said. “They have deep enough pockets that they can withstand this and take care of the building at the same time, and that’s important to us.” Not everyone was able to retire from the industry like Reynolds or be financially cushioned by large chains. For those still working to keep Evanston hotels afloat, the pandemic has brought challenges they could never have prepared for and forced them to face a new reality within the city.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020 Generally, healthy occupancy for a Chicago-area hotel is around 75 percent, she said. Evanston isn’t exactly a notable tourist destination. Those who visit for pleasure typically fall into three categories: people looking to spend time in Chicago without paying downtown rates, Northwestern visitors and local travelers from within the state and surrounding area. But a decrease in travel — both for pleasure and for business — has generated a decrease in hotel traffic. Gina Speckman, the executive director of Chicago’s North Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau, said many of Evanston’s businesses draw in hundreds of guests at a time for industry conferences. These conferences — and their guests — are all housed in Evanston hotels. But now, none of those conferences are happening. Since June 26, Illinois has been in phase four of its COVID-19 relief plan, and officials have recently implemented more mitigation efforts to combat a surge in cases. Though hotels are allowed to open, the state prohibits any gatherings of more than 50 people. As a result, large-scale events, which have been pivotal drivers of revenue for Evanston hotels, have been canceled or moved online. “(The cancellations have) cut off the meetings market — conferences, conventions, really any social events that we work with in terms of weddings, or any kind of reunions or gatherings,” Speckman said. “It ’s really hard to have them with a limit of up to 50 people.”

“What we've seen in the pandemic is hotels that literally went dark, meaning no employees, nobody working there.” — Carol Brown

A struggling industry

Industry expert Carol Brown said in all her nearly 40 years in hospitality, she’s never witnessed hotels closing at the rate they have during the pandemic. Brown, the chair of the Hospitality and Tourism Management Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago, has long told students hotel shutdowns are nearly impossible. But the impossible happened. “I tell students, and it was told to me when I was a student, that you better get used to the hotel industry, because hotels never close, never — they never go dark,” Brown said, who has also held management roles in hotel chains like Sheraton Hotels and Resorts. “But what we’ve seen in the pandemic is hotels that literally went dark, meaning lights off, no guests, no employees, nobody working there.” Earlier this year, one of Evanston’s biggest hotels went dark. The Hilton Orrington/Evanston closed for an extended period of time, only reopening this fall. In August, the Margarita European Inn shut its doors until the beginning of 2021 — though that reopening date is still uncertain. Brown said most hotels remaining open are only functioning at between 10 and 30 percent of their capacity.

manager, said Evanston saw sharp decreases in income from hotel taxes after COVID-19 struck. He said city tax collections on hotels went down significantly, dropping 84 percent from May 2019 to May 2020. As a result, Zalmezak said the future of local hotels may be grim. He said he would not be shocked if one or more Evanston hotels closed their doors forever. “Can all of the hotels survive?” Zalmezak said. “Can Evanston have five hotels, operating at 10 percent occupancy with limited bailout money? I don’t know the answer. It wouldn’t surprise me if we see the number of hotel rooms shrinking in Evanston after this.”

Left behind by a failing industry

Throughout the pandemic, big hotels and corporations have struggled to make ends meet — and like other industries, they have turned to furloughs as a method to reduce deficits.

More than just a hotel

At the beginning of the pandemic, some local hotels took on a new role: providing shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Evanston. Local nonprofit Connections for the Homeless started fundraising immediately, and struck a deal with multiple hotels to house people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic. Jennifer Kouba, Connections’ associate director of development, said COVID-19 heightened the need to find housing for the city’s houseless population. Given their inability to sustainably shelter in place, their risk of exposure increased. Soon after Connections began moving people into hotels, the city offered its help. From March through the end of May, when Illinois’ shelter-in-place order ended, Kouba said the city provided $715,000 in funding for the project. Additionally, Connections has received financial support from multiple Evanston organizations, including the Evanston Community Foundation. Kouba said Connections for the Homeless is committed to finding permanent housing solutions for all residents currently living in hotels. While some hotels have since reopened their doors and ended their partnerships with Connections, she said the group has one current partner committed to providing a long-term housing option through the spring of 2021. Additionally, Connections has intentionally reinvested money into local businesses since beginning their partnerships. Kouba said over the course of the past seven months, the program has invested approximately $3 million into the Evanston economy. “Homelessness requires a community response,” Kouba said. “And when every member and stakeholder within a community stepped forward to address the community’s largest challenges, that’s when a real difference can be made.”

Opening the doors The impact of these cancelations and subsequent hotel closures extends far beyond the travel market. All aspects of hospitality are interlinked, Speckman said, as visitors spend their dollars at local restaurants, shops and other businesses. Annie Coakley, the executive director of Downtown Evanston, said large events have previously played a key role in the city’s economy. Without them, many businesses are seeing significant decreases in revenue. “If you have a meeting or conference, you’re definitely going to see a spike in reservations at restaurants,” Coakley said. “Three hundred people at the Hilton Orrington or the Hilton Garden Inn for a conference or meeting — those are also things that we definitely rely on for the general economy of Evanston.” The pandemic’s unpredictable nature makes estimating the length and depth of its effects on hotels difficult. Though travel and tourism has gradually resumed, hotels may not recoup the lost revenue, and the current low income flow may not be sustainable. Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development

the largest companies to the smallest ones,” Smith said. “As we strategize about how we open, our goal is to open it safely, and have those expectations of making sure that it’s about the experience.”

Despite the industry’s current crisis, Graduate Hotels has big plans for Evanston. The company opened Graduate Evanston on Oct. 16, hoping to cater to the interests and needs of families of students in college towns. However, Reynolds said the ability to adjust to a new or expanded hotel in the Evanston hospitality market often takes multiple years — even in non-pandemic situations. “If someone were to build a 200-room hotel in downtown Evanston, everyone would probably be pushed below breakeven,” Reynolds said. “The ability to make a profit is very tied to capacity, and it takes several years to absorb the introduction of a new hotel.” Eric Smith, Graduate Evanston’s general manager, said it was necessary for the hotel to open in the fall. He said his team had to adapt to the pandemic as they tried to build connections in Evanston, and significant safety precautions were put in place for guests. Smith said he had low financial performance expectations going into the hotel’s opening. Instead, he said he hopes to provide the best experience for guests possible. “You can go anywhere and see, this industry and hotels have been really ravaged by the pandemic, from some of

Most hotels have had to make significant staffing cuts, especially those that closed for any length of time. As a result, many employees saw significant reductions in pay for the year. Since March, the state has already lost over 67,000 hotel jobs, with more losses on the way and no immediate prospects of relief. In September, Chicago-area hospitality employees staged a protest downtown in support of the 7,000 hotel workers in danger of losing their health insurance soon. Paulette Robinson, a longtime employee of multiple Marriott hotels, was one of the thousands of Chicago hotel workers impacted by the pandemic. Robinson told the Chicago Sun-Times in September that she couldn’t understand why, after cutting their pay, many hotels were slashing workers’ benefits as well. Furloughed employees have also had trouble finding new jobs given the struggling industry. “I guess they’re waiting for us to die,” she told the Sun-Times. “They should have some sort of empathy, especially because they took our jobs. They could at least help us with health care during this time.” Many hotel employees already fall below the United States’ median personal income, which was $34,317 in 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median salary for hotel clerks in 2018 was just under $26,000, and a hotel housekeeper’s median salary was about $26,500 in the same year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local hospitality unions did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In Evanston, Reynolds, the former owner of the Homestead, said when he sold the facility to Graduate Hotels, he made a verbal agreement with the company that all his workers would be kept on as employees at the

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020 new hotel. But a few months after the sale, he said all the former Homestead employees were let go, leaving them unemployed right before the start of the pandemic. Graduate Hotels declined to comment on the matter. Additionally, the decrease in travel has affected incomes for independent hosts, like those who rent out space to guests through Airbnb. Liz Bulf, an Evanston resident and Airbnb host, said hosting is cyclical based on frequent travel times. However, at the beginning of the pandemic, she said the company’s potential protocol changes were initially unclear for hosts. “We’re pretty autonomous, but they did initially relax their standards for cancellations,” Bulf said. “When no one really knew what was going on, they eased their restrictions.” As long as the pandemic persists with limited financial financial relief, layoffs will likely continue, Brown said. Many hotels have already removed a significant portion of middle management positions, she said, and the uncertainty has also prompted droves of people to depart the industry.

The Northwestern connection

A significant portion of many hotels’ revenue in Evanston may come from large conferences and events, but the University is also a major driver of traffic and dollars to the city — which holds true in most college towns, and is why Graduate Hotels has seen success with its business model. In fact, Zalmezak, the city’s economic development manager, said before the pandemic, the city was a point of interest for some hotel chains looking to expand because of the University. But many students are now living at home, and large-scale events like football games, commencement and Wildcat Welcome have since been canceled. As a result, NU’s Executive Director of Neighborhood and Community Relations, Dave Davis, said the city’s economy is likely to continue to see a downturn across the board. “Given the reduction in density, there’s also a direct correlation in the reduction in economic activity by our students,” Davis said. “Our students play a huge role in sustaining the local businesses in downtown Evanston, because they go to restaurants to eat, they patronize the local shops and stores, they spend money for entertainment purposes, and they’re also engaged in the local community.”

In addition to students’ impact on the city, Davis said a significant number of Evanston’s visitors are also driven by the University. In 2019, he said NU saw 60,000 confirmed visitors at its visitors center, and an estimated 200,000 other travelers who came to the city for some reason related to the University. With the cancelation of many University events, those numbers have sharply dropped. Though the hotels saw some use from students and families at the end of the 2019-20 school year, Speckman said the reservations that survived were minimal, falling short of expectations many hotels had prepared for. “The rates are higher during commencement and other busy Northwestern-related times, and with graduation being effectively canceled, that was a big hit,” Speckman said. “Some people still came — there’s still people that came and took pictures, and parents still had to pick up their kids. So it didn’t drop to nothing, but the majority of those rooms were not used.”

Learning to pivot

Evanston hotels may have been dependent on the University to bring in a significant portion of their revenue, but NU might be one hotel’s saving grace. After the University announced that freshmen and sophomores couldn’t return to campus, Hilton Orrington management jumped into action, announcing that it would offer longterm housing for students who were displaced by the decision. After a deal

with a third party fell through, the Orrington decided to independently take student reservations at a nightly rate. Each student living in the hotel is provided with their own fully furnished room with a bathroom. Other amenities, such as a laundry service and meal plan, are provided at an additional cost. The hotel has not yet announced whether it plans to continue housing students after the end of Fall Quarter, and Hilton Orrington representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Maddy Foutes, a Weinberg sophomore, decided to live in the Orrington after her Greek housing fell through. Foutes said she knew another remote quarter from home would be detrimental to her mental health and make classes more difficult to deal with. Foutes said the Orrington provided many conveniences, and living there is nicer than both dorm life and Greek housing. Though the University has announced dorms will open for Winter Quarter, Foutes said she and others have become disillusioned with the idea of university housing. “A lot of people are like me in the sense that they were looking for something short-term. (It was) easy to get out here and not have to deal with furnishing an apartment on such short notice,” Foutes said. “A lot of people are still wondering what they’re going to do or what Northwestern will do for the rest of the year… I don’t think I’ll ever look at on-campus living the same.”

Trying to bounce back

As some Americans begin traveling again, Evanston hotels will seek to open up

more as they weather the rest of the pandemic. Though it’s impossible to tell when the country will be able to fully reopen, Davis said NU students will continue to play a key role in Evanston’s economy. Despite the announced return of freshmen and sophomores for Winter Quarter, Governor J.B. Pritzker’s October announcement re-implementing stronger COVID-19 restrictions in Cook County may minimize underclassmen’s potential impact.

“If we can’t restart the local economic engine here in Evanston... there could be some significant and unfortunately devastating consequences to the local economy,” Davis said. “That’s the reason why we’re trying to safely repopulate our campus while trying to do this as soon as possible.” Davis said in his interactions with local business owners, he has heard multiple calls to bring students back to campus. He said the city’s economic success also impacts the University, so he hopes the relationship will continue to be mutually beneficial. Davis said the University will continue to try to find ways to support Evanston businesses during the pandemic — including the hotel industry. Despite the short-term losses, Brown, the hotel management expert, said she expects the industry to eventually return to its 2019 heights, which she said was the hotel market’s best year to date. However, for many staff members, lowincome employees and local businesses dependent on the traffic hotels bring to the city, the damage has already been done — and might be irreversible. “The pandemic is not going to be forever,” Brown said. “We will emerge, but we’re going to look different when we emerge.” fulton@u.northwestern.edu

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deadline — and those votes might change the outcome, then I would bet my life you’d see a challenge on that.”

Students experience waves of hope, stress as night gets too close to call

On Election Night 2016, NU students could be found crying in Norris University Center as they watched the results roll in. Election Night 2020 went a bit different, as most students watched the results roll in from off-campus apartments or with family back home. McCormick junior Nora Chambers was tired and alone Tuesday night. She’d been up since 4:15 a.m., spending the entire day working the polls in Chicago — a final civic addition to the phone banking and swing-state canvassing she’d been participating in throughout the election cycle. By the time she finally arrived home in Evanston, watching an increasing number of

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From page 1 Protection” ballot to allow women to vote on issues pertaining to their traditional roles as wives and mothers. An 1880 petition advocating for a partial ballot allowing women to vote on “Home Protection” issues. The ballot was a piece of a wedge strategy to push for women’s suffrage in Evanston. (Courtesy of Evanston History Center) Her ballot, which was incorporated into the 1879 Hinds Bill, aimed to let women vote on decisions affecting children and family life, like school policies and the sale of alcohol, Osborne said. “Even up until the last minute, suffrage was very radical for women,” Osborne said. “To be involved in suffrage was still, even in those late days, considered a very radical stance.” So, Osborne said, women wedged their way to the polls with a demand men couldn’t possibly question: the chance to vote and run for their school boards. The Hinds Bill didn’t garner enough votes in Springfield to pass into law, but the idea stuck. By 1892, women were voting in Evanston school board elections. Two women ran for seats. One of those women, Louise Brockaway Stanwood, won. In 1913, Illinois women gained another set of partial ballots that enabled them to vote for presidential electors, and by 1916, they were officially voting in presidential elections. Illinois wasn’t the only state to grant women the right to vote in that presidential election, but it was the largest, Osborne said. Threatened by Illinois’ burgeoning political power,

Republican votes slowly trickle in transformed her fatigue into demoralization. “I feel bamboozled,” Chambers said. “All the pollsters were saying Biden had these big leads in a lot of states, and that they changed their polling methodology from 2016, and that even if there was an error as big as (Clinton’s), Biden would still win by a lot — but it’s looking like it’s actually pretty close.” On the other hand, McCormick junior Ryan Abbott said he’s had a notably “regular” and calm day, opting to intermittently check the results and his NU College Republicans Election Watch group chat between homework. Despite Biden’s lead early in the night, Abbott, the NUCR secretary of public relations, said there was a general sense of confidence amongst the group Tuesday night that Trump will pull off a victory and Republicans will hold the Senate. Abbott added that he and members of NUCR believe the race will “certainly be close” and there will “certainly

be lawsuits.” “No one is going off the walls, but no one is dejected,” Abbott said. “But I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t expect anything to go over easily… I won’t be surprised if it makes its way all the way into the courts.” If Trump isn’t able to maintain the presidency, Abbott noted that while he and other campus Republicans will be disappointed, he doesn’t believe that “anyone’s going to feel like it’s the end of the world.” Although some of her peers in Political Union continue to remain hopeful for a Biden win, Public Relations Chair Pamela Chen was more cynical. The Weinberg junior said she wasn’t surprised as she watched Florida, Georgia and North Carolina redden throughout the night, as she expects Trump to clinch the election. However, she didn’t see the results playing out as smoothly among the student body as Abbott posited. Chen said she believes protests

could ensue if Trump wins, especially as “a lot of students’ lives are directly impacted by the outcome of tonight’s election.” While he’s stayed hopeful about Biden’s chances of picking off Michigan and Wisconsin to edge his way to a win, SESP senior Jacob Jordan said his nerves of a second Trump term haven’t calmed. He added it’s disappointing and depressing to see “just how fundamentally indecent such a large portion of the American public really is” as more and more counties vote in the president’s favor. “A lot of the people I’m watching the election with, we’re all on edge and we’re all emotional because we realize how much this election matters,” Jordan said. “I don’t plan on getting much sleep tonight. I feel like the future of our country is a little more important than my sleep.”

other states like New York quickly followed its example. “That is why it only takes three more years for that 19th Amendment to pass, in my opinion,” she said. “No one wants only Illinois women voting for president.”

said. Most of Black women’s activism took place through organizations like the Ladies Colored Republican Club of Evanston, a political group involved in the suffrage movement, or the Julia Gaston Club, a women’s club in Evanston. Local leaders like Lola Downs and Celia Webb Hill, Julia Gaston Club presidents, often tied their fight for suffrage with their work in the church.

Osborne said she is not aware of documented cases of voter suppression specific to Evanston’s history. But voter suppression, Hendricks said, takes many different forms, many of which originate at the national level. Strict voter identification requirements, for example, pose a challenge to people who don’t have the money to update their IDs, Hendricks said. Additionally, she said discouraging voting by mail could deter people with disabilities and people without access to transportation from casting their ballots. Other issues local to Evanston voting, she said, include a lack of presence from local officials and the location of Evanston’s ballot dropbox, which could be out of the way for some residents living in south Evanston. Hendricks said she knows some community members face disillusionment about their choices in the upcoming presidential election. However, she said it’s still crucial to vote to honor the right for which their ancestors fought and sacrificed. Hendricks said she considers the suffrage movement an ongoing struggle — not one that ended definitively on Aug. 18, 1920. “What the 19th Amendment means to me is what July 4th means to me,” Hendricks said. “It just reminds me of the struggle we’ve been through as a Black community, and how we continue to be overlooked by well-meaning White people. In order to move forward as a whole community, we have to re-evaluate all of these milestones … and celebrate them for what they should have been. That’s how you implement change.”

Wells condemns Willard’s racism, Black women press for the vote

Ida B. Wells, a Chicago civil rights leader and journalist known for her anti-lynching work, founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in January 1913 and took to the nation’s capital to protest alongside the Illinois delegation. Wells operated through an intersectional lens, tying her fight for the vote with her fight for racial justice and condemning Willard for her failure to lead against issues of racism, Osborne said. The temperance movement, which advocated a ban on alcohol consumption and distribution, was a key motivator for many Evanston women fighting for suffrage, especially Willard. Scholars say Willard often courted Southern White women to drum up support for temperance at the expense of the movement for racial justice. In an 1890 newspaper interview, Willard used racist language drawing upon anti-Black stereotypes to make a case against taverns. Four years later, Wells republished the interview and urged Willard to take a stand against lynching. In 1895, the WCTU published an antilynching resolution. With Wells leading the movement in Chicago, Black women in Evanston were also actively pushing for suffrage, and could vote on partial ballots. However, many local Black voices and stories were lost to history, Osborne

A century later, women still fight

After the passage of the 19th Amendment, local suffragists formed groups like the League of Women Voters of Evanston to encourage voter education, registration and turnout. Others set out to work on the Equal Rights Amendment, which was proposed in the early 1920s. Betty Hayford, a current LWVE board member, said when the League was founded in 1920, women had the right to vote, but many women weren’t used to thinking about it. As a result, the organization made a point to educate women voters — a mission it continues today. Today, the League continues its outreach by talking with voters at registration events throughout the city and publishing information to educate voters on candidates, the voting process and voters’ rights. “I think the greatest barrier to voting at the moment is lack of information,” Hayford said. “That’s an ongoing challenge.” Democratic Party of Evanston member Kemone Hendricks, who founded Evanston Present and Future and the city’s Juneteenth Parade, has led a voter registration pop-up initiative throughout the city and at local Blackowned businesses.

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Longtime equipment manager Bill Jarvis remembered after death

Bill Jarvis served as Northwestern’s former equipment manager for over 35 years. In honor of his time in Evanston, the athletic department renamed the equipment room at Ryan Field for him before he retired. Last week, Jarvis, who worked for the Wildcats

from 1976 to 2011, died. “We lost a giant in the Northwestern football family in Bill Jarvis,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “Mr. J made such a huge impact on so many of us as studentathletes, staff members and impacted so many of those great fans and folks in the Northwestern community. It’s just surreal that we’ve lost him.” Jarvis graduated from Ashland University, then called Ashland College, in Ohio in 1970 and joined the school’s athletic department, where he became Ashland’s first full-time equipment manager. He served in the role until 1976, when he took the same

position at NU. During his more than 35 years in Evanston, Jarvis organized equipment for the Cats’ sports teams and ensured it met safety standards. He also created an internship for equipment managers. Off the field, Jarvis was a member of the AllAmerican Advisory Board, a body that proposes safety changes for athletic equipment. After his retirement, Jarvis was given the Ashland Athletics Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Additionally, he was inducted into the Athletic Equipment Managers Association Hall of Fame in 2015.

Fitzgerald said that Jarvis left a lasting impact on him and NU’s football program. He added that the former equipment manager would always have a place in his heart. “Everybody knew Jarv,” Fitzgerald said. “If you were to talk to anybody about Mr. J, they’d all just talk about how much they loved him. We’re gonna really miss him, his sense of humor, his smile, his demeanor. Just everything about him was the best. I’m gonna really miss him.” — Drew Schott

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From 2005 to 2008, Montreal Alouettes running back Tyrell Sutton was a reliable presence in the Northwestern backfield, racking up 3,886 rushing yards and 37 touchdowns, both of which remain third in Wildcats history. He spoke to The Daily about his college years, his career in the Canadian Football League (where he won the rushing title in 2015), and his thoughts on NU’s performance thus far this season. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. The Daily: It’s now been 15 years since your first season at Northwestern when you were named the Big Ten’s Freshman of the Year. What are your memories of that season looking back? Sutton: I remember we had a very mature, very explosive team. We may not have looked it on the defensive side, but on the offensive side, we were putting up points left and right. We underachieved as a team that year — we should’ve been a lot better record-wise than we were. We were just playing some ball back then. I was just trying to follow the lead of quarterback Brett Basanez and wide receiver Mark Philmore and those older-generational guys that made Northwestern turn that corner. The Daily: What were the biggest adjustments for you transitioning from living in the United States and playing American football to living in Canada and playing in the CFL back in 2013?

Sutton: It’s pretty chill up here, a multicultural place where most of the people get along. When I was in the States, there was a kind of hustle and bustle, you need to work all the time and get money. But here, they slow it down a little bit, just enough for you to enjoy your life, enjoy your personal time, and enjoy your family.

The Daily: How did you first learn the CFL intended to cancel its 2020 season due to the COVID19 pandemic, and what was your reaction? Sutton: We heard from our union up here, and the CFL sent out a memo regarding the cancellation of the season. Like most fans — like most players — of course we were shocked and upset by it, but through all that darkness came me being able to spend time with my family. I’ve been married for a year, I just had my baby, so everything turned out to be great in that sense. The Daily: How do you think the Cats have looked so far in 2020? Sutton: It’s looking good. I know they had a couple players opt out, and I know they got a very late start to the season.But they look good,they look pretty energized,and the new offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian looks really good.Their supporting cast is doing great, not having the quarterback Peyton Ramsey trying to do too much, and it goes back to the old tradition of trying to wear them down in the fourth quarter. They have a great group of young leaders over there, and Coach Fitz is doing a great job of recruiting and a great job of keeping NU’s name prominent — bigger and better than it ever has been. patrickandres2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats to face rested Nebraska at home By ELLA BROCKWAY

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On election night, the road to the presidency ran through Nebraska. So too, it appears, will Northwestern’s race toward a Big Ten West title. The Wildcats welcome the Cornhuskers to Ryan Field on Saturday, looking for their first 3-0 start to Big Ten play in 20 years and to cross another name off the list of obstacles standing between them and a trip to Indianapolis. The third game of a season isn’t usually seen as very consequential, but this is 2020. The race for the crown in the West is already tightening: Preseason Top 25 teams Iowa and Minnesota are 0-2 on the year; Illinois is winless and managing a number of COVID-19 cases; and No. 10 Wisconsin’s entire season is in flux after two cancelled games because of a COVID-19 outbreak of its own. NU (2-0, 2-0 Big Ten) is tied with Purdue at the top of the division, and will face the team next week on Nov. 14. That matchup in West Lafayette could determine the fate of the division, but it won’t be as important for the Cats if they can’t take down Nebraska. And the Huskers are coming in hungry. Nebraska was the school most openly calling to play a fall season all the way back in August, but has already seen its 2020 campaign

dealt a number of hurdles. The Huskers lost their opener in a 52-17 drubbing to No. 5 Ohio State, and then saw their Week 2 matchup with Wisconsin canceled, meaning they’ll come into Evanston with a full extra week of preparation under their belt. “It ’s a big advantage for Nebraska,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said Monday. “They had a week off to rest up, they obviously got a chance to watch us play. We were in a fourquarter war and a really physical game (against Iowa) … we just have to get recovered.” The two NUs have an exciting recent history. Nebraska holds a 5-4 edge in the series since joining the Big Ten in 2010, and the two most recent matchups have ended with their fair share of dramatic fieldgoal flare. The Huskers clinched a 13-10 win in Lincoln with a walkoff 24-yard kick in 2019, while the Cats won it in overtime with a Drew Luckenbaugh game-winner at home in 2018. Saturday’s contest should be just as interesting. Despite having only played one game, Nebraska owns the country’s 23rd-ranked offense in ESPN’s SP+ rankings, while NU claims the country’s third-best defense. “They kind of whipped us on that (defensive) side of the ball last year, and they look the same or better this year,” Huskers coach Scott Frost said Monday. “Their offense, I think so far through two games is doing a lot better than they did last year, and

looks to be pretty good to me. They’re always going to be a smart, physical, disciplined team on both sides of the ball.” Nebraska’s biggest threat comes in the form of its two-quarterback system. Junior Adrian Martinez and redshirt freshman Luke McCaffrey split time in the loss to the Buckeyes. Martinez, a three-year starter, finished with 85 rushing and 105 passing yards, while McCaffrey — the younger brother of former Stanford running back Christian and current Michigan quarterback Dylan McCaffrey — added nine carries for 80 yards and four completions. NU last faced a two-quarterback system of this style against Indiana in 2019, when one of those signalcallers was none other than current Cats quarterback Peyton Ramsey. The team’s defense struggled against that attack, allowing the Hoosiers 34 points and more than 400 total yards of offense. “It’s going to be a challenge most definitely,” said senior linebacker Paddy Fisher. “They’re both tremendous athletes and passers, so it’s going to be difficult for us to come up with a game plan to stop both of those two and really limit them.” Nebraska’s defense allowed 52 points to Ohio State, but Fitzgerald still sees it as a threat. The Huskers will be down two starting defensive backs, junior Cam Taylor-Britt at cornerback and senior Deontai Williams at safety, after they were both ejected from the Oct. 24 game for

targeting. That could give Ramsey and offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian an opportunity to test their air attack after a run-heavy week at Iowa. Ramsey threw 27 completions for 351 yards — his second-most of the 2019 season — and added two touchdowns when beating the Huskers 38-31 with Indiana last year. “They play with tempo, they attack you schematically with formations and shifts and motions, and they do a great job from a talent standpoint,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s as good as anybody we’ll play all year. We’re going to have our hands full Saturday morning.” ellabrockway@u.northwestern.edu

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Peyton Ramsey holds the ball out for Drake Anderson on an RPO. The graduate quarterback will lead the Cats in the next step of their chase for a Big Ten West title against Nebraska.

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