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The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

Day of the Dead 2024

The Israel family poses for a photo after finishing La Carrera de los Muertos together in Pilsen on Nov. 2, 2024. Carrera permits participants of all ages.

Pilsen’s Annual Carrera de los Muertos, now larger than ever, celebrates a Mexican tradition

Riley Sommers, La DePaulia Contributing Writer November 2, 2024

With a record-breaking turnout of more than 7,000 runners and nearly 200 volunteers, the annual Carrera de los Muertos in Pilsen is growing beyond Carlos Jaramillo’s wildest dreams, he said.  Jaramillo...

A group celebrates Dia de los Muertos holding cempasuchil flowers and displaying skeleton during a procession towards La Ronda Parakata on Saturday, October 26, 2024.

Community Unites on Day of the Dead Celebration to Support Family Mourning Young Student’s Recent Death

Alonso Vidal, La DePaulia Multimedia Editor November 2, 2024

Crowds of people arrived early in the morning on 35th Street on Oct. 26 to eat tamales, paint their faces as skulls, and receive cempasúchil flowers, or marigolds, as they prepared to cross the bridge...

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