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Doug Bruno smiles during an interview in the Sullivan Athletic Center on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The Chicago City Council honored Bruno for his impact on the city and women's basketball on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

City Council recognizes Doug Bruno for championing women’s sports

Mayor Brandon Jonhson and Chicago’s aldermen, honored Bruno’s contributions to women’s sports at DePaul and throughout Chicago.
Laura Vázquez David, Asst. Sports Editor / July 16, 2025
Mayor Brandon Jonhson and Chicago’s aldermen, honored Bruno’s contributions to women’s sports at DePaul and throughout Chicago.
El cardenal Robert Prevost aparece en la logia central de la Basílica de San Pedro después de ser elegido el 267° pontífice de la Iglesia Católica Romana, eligiendo el nombre del Papa León XIV, en el Vaticano, el jueves 8 de mayo de 2025.

Robert Francis Prevost, nacido en Chicago, es elegido como el primer papa estadounidense

Rose O’Keeffe, Content Managing Editor / May 8, 2025

Humo blanco salió del Vaticano esta mañana, señalando que un nuevo líder de la Iglesia Católica había sido elegido. El cardenal Robert Francis Prevost, de Estados Unidos, será el 267.º líder...

A ballot casting station for the City of Chicago sits at the election Supersite at 191 North Clark on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. On March 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for proof of citizenship to be required on voter registration forms.

How Trump’s order and the SAVE Act could stop you from voting

Sabrina Castle, Contributing Writer / April 14, 2025

Do you have immediate access to a document that proves your citizenship, like a passport? Do you even have one? If not, then you may not be able to vote – even if you’re a fully legal U.S. citizen. On...

Reina Marcelle, owner of Reina's Cakes, frosts a cake during a cake decorating class at her shop in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood on September. 28, 2024. Marcelle teaches cake decorating classes to kids and adults in addition to selling cakes.

Humboldt Park woman turned her cake shop into a community gathering place

Reina Marcelle’s journey from selling cakes in the park to becoming a neighborhood inspiration
Sofia Joseph, La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief / January 19, 2025

There is nothing more important than community to Reina Marcelle, known as the “Cake Lady” of Humboldt Park.  Marcelle, 52,  began selling cakes from a cart in the spring of 2021, but is now the...

Chicago removes ShotSpotter as the clock strikes midnight

Chicago removes ShotSpotter as the clock strikes midnight

LiLi Jarvenpa, Editor-in-Chief / September 30, 2024

Chicago ended its multi-year contract with ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection technology provider, on Monday, Sept. 23, pulling the plug on the service after midnight on Sept. 22.  The Chicago City Council...

Community members watch a presentation at the Explore ChiVes event in DePaul’s new Spark Center on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Curran hopes events like these will spread the word and enable community organizing. The center can fit over 50 people.

SPARK Center debuts with environmental data-driven neighborhood project

Jeremy Battle, Director of Photography & Multimedia / September 30, 2024

Featuring a massive LED display wall and two mounted touch screens on each side of the room, DePaul’s brand-new SPARK Center opened its doors to its first-ever event, Explore ChiVes, on Sept. 17. Dozens...

A father takes a photo of his daughter who poses with two American flags during the last day of the Democratic National Convention, on Aug. 22, 2024.

The power of likes: How influencers are #shaping campaign rhetoric

Lina Gebhardt, Multimedia Editor / August 27, 2024

In today’s social media landscape, influencers often get a bad rap. The Democratic National Convention hoped to prove otherwise. From day one of the 2024 planning process to the rollout of the blue...

Dozens gather in Chicago City Hall in support for a cease-fire in Gaza on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Chicago is the biggest city to pass a resolution for a cease-fire.

Chicago City Council passes resolution for cease-fire in Gaza: 23-23 vote

Lucia Preziosi, Editor in Chief / February 4, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson casting the tie-breaking vote in the symbolic decision.
An elderly man warms his hands by the fire he created across the street from a homeless encampment under a major interstate freeway Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Chicago. Millions of Americans face below-zero temperatures as storms bring a blast of Arctic air, snow and ice.

Below-zero temperatures raise concern for Chicago’s unhoused

Lucia Preziosi, Editor in Chief / January 21, 2024
Chicago endured a cold spell last week, bringing snow and below-freezing temperatures dipping into the negatives with extreme windchill.
Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop. The SAFE-T Act went into effect Sept. 18 to help decrease the jail population in Illinois.

Illinois becomes first state to eliminate cash bail; rural counties face implementation challenges

Samantha Moilanen, Former Online Managing Editor / October 1, 2023

Illinois has become the first state to abolish cash bail, a move that some legal experts say will have very different ramifications in rural areas than in Chicago.  The Pretrial Fairness Act became...

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