NEIU’s Ronald Williams Library released a digital collection of the Japanese American Redress documents that focused on the the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) hearings. The CWRIC hearings took place on NEIU’s main campus on September 22-23, 1981. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt i...

  NEIU Smoke was reported billowing from one of the elevators in the Ronald Williams Library at approximately 4:45pm on Tuesday, Sept, 11. Firefighters on the scene said that repairs were being performed on the elevator in question when a hydraulic line blew. The emergency line was pulled manually to stop all of the elevators and the library was evacuated while firefighters were called in to assess the fire risk. Staff and students outside of the library reported being able to smell the effects of the hydraulic line failure from around the outside of the building. One student who declined to give his name reported he was in one of the other elevators when the emergency line was pulled. According to this student, he and the other students in the elevator were forced to climb out since the elevator had stopped between floors. There were no reported injuries and the building was declared safe for re-entry shortly thereafter....