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Thursday, November 6, 2014
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Quinn concedes governor race Gov. Pat Quinn conceded the gubernatorial election Wednesday afternoon to Republican challenger Bruce Rauner. Quinn, who refused to accept Rauner’s victory on Tuesday night, said he wanted to wait until every vote was counted. However, at a press conference Wednesday, Quinn said a victory was no longer possible. “It’s clear that we do not have enough votes to win the election,” Quinn said. With more than 99 percent of precincts reporting, Rauner has a lead of 51 percent to 46 percent over Quinn, according to the Associated Press. Rauner released a statement Wednesday on Quinn’s concession. “I thank Governor Quinn for his many years of service to Illinois and appreciate his commitment to making this a smooth transition,”
he said. “I look forward to getting to work to make Illinois the most compassionate and competitive state in the nation.” With Quinn’s remaining time in office, he said he will dedicate himself to raising the minimum wage from $8.25 an hour to $10 an hour, which was a key component of his re-election platform. Voters also passed a referendum, showing support for this legislative move. At the Quinn election party Tuesday night, Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board president, said the state’s Democratic Congress would balance out the Republican governor. “We have a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House, so the issues that I care about will be addressed in the state legislature,” she said. — Tyler Pager
Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer
waiting to vote State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), who ran unopposed in the election, walks through the Civic Center on Tuesday. About 430 voters showed up at the center to participate in Election Day registration, causing Evanston residents and Northwestern students to wait more than two hours in line.
City sees long registration lines By paige leskin and hal jin the daily northwestern @paigeleskin, @apricityhal
The state’s first year of election day registration attracted members of the Evanston and Northwestern community, with the Civic Center drawing the highest number of same-day registrants of anywhere in suburban Cook County. The registration process at the Civic Center presented some difficulties, with some voters standing in long lines for more than two hours to register and cast their ballots. The center served as
Daily file photo by Rebecca Savransky
MOVING OUT Buffalo Wild Wings, 1741 Maple Ave., closed the doors of its Evanston location on Sunday. The restaurant is relocating to Old Orchard Mall in Skokie, where it plans to open in January.
City Buffalo Wild Wings closes to move to Skokie
Evanston’s Buffalo Wild Wings has officially closed. A popular place for Northwestern students to watch televised sports while ordering plates of wings and fries, the restaurant shut its doors Sunday, manager Adrian Ramirez said. The franchise, at 1741 Maple Ave., will relocate to Old Orchard Mall in Skokie, Ramirez said. The restaurant is scheduled to open in January. Vicki Frantz, marketing director of KPW Management LLC, a company that owns several BWW restaurants in the Chicago
area, initially told The Daily in July of BWW’s plans to close in Evanston. Despite the move, BWW will continue its close relationship with the University and its students, Frantz said. The restaurant will still sponsor NU athletics and provide support to the Evanston community, she said. The Skokie location will offer the franchise “more exposure in the area,” Frantz said in July. For the past few years, BWW was the location of Dance Marathon’s trivia nights, held to help students raise money for their DM teams. Following the closing of BWW, DM moved its trivia events in late October to 27 Live, 1012 Church St.
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881
— Paige Leskin
the only Evanston location and one of 18 sites across suburban Cook County where people could register on Election Day. The service was part of the state’s pilot program this year. “I got there around 5:30 and I left around 8,” SESP sophomore Margaret Parker said. “This is actually the first time I’ve ever voted, and I was very excited about it.” From the time the polls opened at 6 a.m. to their close at 7 p.m., 430 people participated in Election Day registration at the Civic Center, according to the Cook County Clerk’s Office. More than 3,600 people in all of suburban Cook County registered to vote on
Tuesday. Gov. Pat Quinn, who was defeated Tuesday by Republican challenger Bruce Rauner, signed into state law in July a pilot program for Election Day registration, which has been implemented in ten states and Washington, D.C. NU services like the “Voter Van,” a free shuttle driven by NU Votes students, enabled students like Parker to vote. Students only had to bring their WildCARDs and be able to sign into CAESAR to register at the Civic Center, she said. » See voting, page 6
NU community responds to Denver John Evans report By jeanne kuang
daily senior staffer @jeannekuang
Following the University of Denver’s release of its John Evans Study Committee findings, some Northwestern students praised the new report, while a member of NU’s committee defended its own conclusions on the University founder’s role in the Sand Creek Massacre. DU’s committee, established shortly after NU’s own John Evans Study Committee in early 2013, released its report Monday, finding Evans was “central” to creating conditions in the Colorado Territory — of which he was governor at the time — that made the massacre “possible and even likely.” “It seems like DU had a better, deeper understanding of the importance of this whole process of trying to go forward and recognizing our past,” said Bienen
junior Wilson Smith, co-president of the NU Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance. Former co-president Heather Menefee, a Weinberg senior, called DU’s report “a relief.” “DU centered Cheyenne people in their research process, and the result is a strong report and recommendations in contrast to NU’s colonial and dehumanizing report,” she said in an email to The Daily. DU’s report concluded that Evans, the founder of both universities, was “deeply culpable” in the Sand Creek Massacre, an 1864 attack by American soldiers that killed about 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people. NU’s report, released in May, found Evans did not directly plan the massacre but retained some responsibility for being “one of several individuals who … helped create a situation that made the Sand Creek Massacre possible.” NU’s committee chair, English Prof.
Carl Smith, defended his report, citing the “remarkable extent to which the findings of both of these reports are very, very similar.” “The Northwestern report says quite clearly in its conclusion that despite the fact that he may not have had a direct role in the massacre, he was certainly before the fact, one of the people who played a major role in making it possible,” Carl Smith said. “What would be a terrible result of some of this is if the emphasis was on whatever the differences are between the reports, when I think they’re essentially saying something very similar.” Carl Smith said he was “puzzled” by DU’s choice to devote a section of its report to the two conclusions’ differences. In an interview with The Daily on Monday, DU’s committee chair, Nancy » See evans, page 6
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