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Testing Sites

This webpage will be updated June 13 to reflect changes in Northwestern’s guidelines and resources. Read the April 26 announcement about these changes.

Northwestern offers free symptomatic COVID-19 testing to members of the University community in Evanston. In response to declining demand, Northwestern has discontinued asymptomatic COVID-19 testing on both Evanston and Chicago campuses.

Symptomatic Testing

Evanston

Jacobs Center (2001 Sheridan Road): 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday through Friday

The entrance for symptomatic testing is located on the northwest side of the building (near Sheridan Road)