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Sabrina Hardenbergh follows the election over a Zoom meeting and live streams during a Green Party watch event Nov. 3, 2020, in Murphysboro, Ill.

Gallery: Election 2020 watch parties

By Photo Desk, Staff Photographer • November 4, 2020

Despite the ongoing pandemic, local political candidates still held watch parties on election night to wait for results. Daily Egyptian photographers captured the following moments from the watch parties...

People maintain their 6-foot social distancing while waiting to vote at the Carbondale Civic Center Nov. 3, in Carbondale, Ill.

Gallery: Scenes from southern Illinois polls

By Photo Desk, Daily Egyptian • November 3, 2020
Polls have now closed across the majority of the U.S. and as of publication, former Vice President Joe Biden was in the lead with 209 electoral votes while President Donald Trump had 112, according to the Associated Press.
Sarah Linn and her daughter, Tessa, look at the carved pumpkins given to the foxes at Treehouse Wildlife Centers first-ever, Owl-A-Ween Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Dow, Ill.

Gallery: Halloween 2020

By Photo Staff, Daily Egyptian • November 1, 2020
Families all over Illinois are celebrating Halloween as a way to get out of the house during the pandemic.
Kirstan Innis sits for a Halloween themed make-up demonstration by her friend, Stephanie Jines Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, in Carterville, Ill. Shes one of my friends and I also love Halloween, its one of my favorite holidays, Innis said.

Gallery: Halloween special effects make-up

By Jared Treece, Staff Photographer • October 31, 2020
Stephanie Jines, from The Art of Dyeing Beauty Salon in Carterville, Ill., demonstrates her skills in special effects Halloween make-up.
Matt Ahlfield and Isaac Gibson, co-owners of Backwoods Axe Throwing in Murphysboro, practice their axe throwing Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020.

Backwoods Axe Throwing to host Halloween activities

By Leah Sutton, Photo Editor • October 29, 2020
Matt Ahlfield and Isaac Gibson, co-owners of Backwoods Axe Throwing in Murphysboro, plan to show classic Halloween movies throughout the Halloween weekend while allowing people to celebrate Halloween, Purge style. 
Doris Miller, 87, smiles as she removes a part of the Trump flag that got blown into her face Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Vienna, Ill. Miller, an avid Trump supporter, sells Trump merchandise in her front yard to help raise money for President Trump. Every Saturday, I’m going to sell whatever I can get that says Trump and send the proceeds to help him. That’s what Ive done, Miller said.

Avid Trump supporter helps raise funds for the president

By Jared Treece, Staff Photographer • October 29, 2020
“I send him all the proceeds,” she said. “So I send it weekly or maybe every two weeks. But, I send it all to him. We don’t even take our lunch money out of that, because we want every cent to go to Trump.”
Letter from the editor: Its time for student news to step up

Letter from the editor: It’s time for student news to step up

By Kallie Cox, Editor-in-Chief • October 28, 2020
Local news is dying and is instead being replaced by enterprise giants such as Tribune, Gannett and Lee Enterprises. 
People wait in line at the Pandemic Food Distribution event Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, at the SIU Banterra Center, in Carbondale, Ill. Volunteers help load boxes of food into the cars in line. The food comes from the USDA Farm Table program to help those affected by the pandemic.

USDA’s Farm to Table program hosts a Pandemic Relief Food Distribution

By Monica Sharma, Staff Photographer • October 26, 2020
“Everyone is able to get food and there are no restrictions,” Fowler said. “It’s just an amazing program and we are fortunate to be a part of the program."
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Exploring SIU’s sustainability mission

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Exploring SIU’s sustainability mission

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter • October 25, 2020
SIU has implemented various sustainability initiatives on campus to help the environment but there is still a long way to go to create an environmentally conscious and friendly society.
Chris Wissmann (middle) teaches a Karate demonstration with students, Rossana Lausell (left) and Isaac Lausell (Right) at the Southern Illinois Unity Coalition’s Stop the Violence event held at Attucks Park Saturday, October 24, 2020, in Carbondale, Ill. “We came out to support Sensei Wissmann which is one of our two Karate teachers at the park district. I started with Shotokan, which I still practice with Sensei Everheart at SIU but with Sensei Wissmann I’ve been training for a year and a half,” Issac Lausell said.

Gallery: Stop the Violence

By James Allen, Staff Photographer • October 24, 2020
The Southern Illinois Unity Coalition held their Stop the Violence event at Attucks Park in Carbondale, Ill. on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. The event consisted of an African art display, painting, and a karate demonstration.
Polling stations across Illinois continue to keep their doors open for the Presidential Primary Election despite the growing concerns of the spread of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2020 at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, IL.

House race for district 115 features two third party candidates

By Jason Flynn, Staff Reporter • October 24, 2020
The Illinois state House of Representatives race for the 115th congressional district may be the most competitive the race has been since the district was created. 
Nancy Maxwell attempts to keep her candle from blowing out due to wind during the moment of silence in remembrance of Xe’Quan Campbell, a 16-year-old Carbondale Community High School student who was murdered in 2019, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, in Carbondale, Ill.

Carbondale community members hold vigil to stop gun violence

By Keaton Yates, Staff Reporter • October 23, 2020
Southern Illinois Unity Coalition organized a vigil on Friday to bring awareness to gun violence and in remembrance of a 16-year-old Carbondale Community High School student who was murdered in Nov. of 2019.
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