DePaul students who have Monday classes in the Loop got some interesting news when DePaul announced they would be closing that campus from Friday, May 18 to Monday, May 21 while the world comes to town for the NATO summit.
The decision, originally passed down when the G8 summit was going to be held in Chicago as well, has remained the same even though G8 has since been moved to Camp David.”The NATO summit is an extraordinary event…that will attract thousands of extra visitors to downtown,” reads an official statement on the university’s webpage about NATO. Closing the Loop campus is “a precaution against potential logistical issues that may arise…and to lessen traffic stress that might occur during the summit