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Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss is calling on the Trump administration to explain how its recent agreement with Northwestern University could affect protests, community partnerships and immigration enforcement in the city the school calls home, according to a letter provided to the Tribune.

Northwestern late last month announced it would pay a $75 million fine and enter into an agreement with President Donald Trump to settle allegations of antisemitism and restore roughly $800 million in frozen federal research funds. The move brought both relief and backlash on campus , with critics alarmed by the Trump administration’s expanding influence over one of the nation’s top universities.

Biss, who is running for the U.S. House in Illinois’ 9th Congre

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