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The DePaulia
The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia
The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

City News

DePaul partnered with The Cities Project mentor program to provide CPS students with training in coping with severe stressors that impede learning.

DePaul Cities Project hopes to reduce student stress

Noah Tomko-Jones, Contributing Writer • April 16, 2023

With its art-covered walls, comfortable furniture and white boards filled with visitors’ drawings, DePaul’s Black Cultural Center provided an ideal backdrop for DePaul Clinical Child Psychology doctoral...

Billy Drew makes Brandon Johnson signs with 12th ward constituents.

Latine youth take lead on informing their communities about mayoral elections

Jacqueline Cardenas, La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief • April 11, 2023

Editor's Note: La DePaulia and The DePaulia use 'Latine' when referring to the community. Read our statement here. Seen out in the streets passing out flyers throughout Chicago’s South West Side,...

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson gathers with his family and waves to the audience after he was announced the winner of the Chicago mayoral runoff election. He won with 51.4% of the votes. (Amber Stoutenborough | The DePaulia)

‘We come alive’: Youth voter turnout secures Johnson’s spot as mayor-elect

Kiersten Riedford, Jacqueline Cardenas, and Nadia Carolina Hernandez • April 9, 2023

Chicagoans voted Brandon Johnson to be the city’s next mayor on April 4. The increased turnout of youth voters pushed Johnson to his win. Youth voters ages 18 to 24 years old had the largest increase...

Mayor elect Brandon Johnson celebrates on stage in front of an audience of supporters at his victory party after Tuesday night's runoff election.

Brandon Johnson wins Chicago mayoral election

Kiersten Riedford, Jacqueline Cardenas, and Nadia Hernandez • April 5, 2023

After a long haul, Chicagoans decided on Tuesday that Brandon Johnson will be the city’s 57th mayor.  At the time of publishing, the current member of the Cook County Commissioners won 51.4% of the...

43rd Ward alderman Timmy Knudsen smiles to a crowd of supporters after securing victory over Brian Comer in Tuesday night's runoff election.

Ald. Timmy Knudsen wins runoff, keeps seat in 43rd Ward

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor • April 4, 2023

Receiving more votes than any candidate in a 43rd Ward aldermanic election in Chicago history, Ald. Timmy Knudsen defeated Brian Comer to keep his seat in a tightly contested race Tuesday night. “We...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rallies on behalf of Brandon Johnson at a campaign event at the University of Illinois at Chicago on March 30, five days before the runoff election.

Down to the wire: Mayoral candidates bring out big names for final push

Lilly Keller and Una Cleary • April 2, 2023

Over 4,000 people packed University of Illinois Chicago’s Credit Union 1 Arena Thursday night to rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders and other progressives in support of Brandon Johnson.  Johnson received...

Two CTA private security speak at the Jackson Red Line station on a weekday afternoon.

$71 million private security contract fails to make CTA safer

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor • April 2, 2023

As commuters descend the steps to the Jackson Red Line stop on a weekday afternoon, they will likely notice a group of five or six people in yellow vests standing in the middle of the platform. Although...

Timmy Knudsen, 43rd Ward Alderman and candidate for the upcoming aldermanic race, attended the Student Government Association (SGA) Q&A session on Oct. 26, 2022.

Ald. Knudsen releases public safety plan in buildup to 43rd Ward runoff

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor • April 2, 2023

With the aim of retaining his appointed seat as the 43rd Ward’s alderman in Tuesday’s runoff election, Timmy Knudsen revealed his community policing plan on Saturday. The plan focuses on increasing...

Brian Comer, a 43rd aldermanic race runoff candidate, receives a signature from a Lincoln Park resident to get him on the ballot for the 43rd Ward aldermanic race.

Alderman candidate Comer proposes offering DePaul students one year’s tuition if join CPD

Samantha Moilanen, Former Online Managing Editor • April 2, 2023

Almost three years ago, DePaul students gathered in the Lincoln Park quad to protest the university’s affiliation with Chicago police. Among the students’ demands included DePaul’s immediate divestment...

A Green Line train bound for Ashland/63rd pulls into the Adams & Wabash St. stop. An informal economy, otherwise known as a survival economy, has begun to skyrocket on the CTA.

CTA turned Marketplace: How the informal economy survives

Joey Stephens, Contributing Writer • April 2, 2023

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is a hub for a sector of the informal economy, a platform for riders to buy and sell goods. According to the CTA’s Ordinance No. 98-126 Section 1.1, it is prohibited...

Cataleya sits atop her father, Elier as he speaks to a police officer while other migrants wait for a bus to take them to a refugee center outside Union Station in Chicago on Aug. 31, 2022.

State abandons plan to house migrants at shuttered Kmart on Southwest Side

Olivia Zimmerman, Staff Writer • April 2, 2023

The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) abandoned plans to house more than 600 migrants in a former Kmart storefront in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood. The announcement came earlier this March...

The Adalberto United Methodist Church is a place of refuge for many migrants.

Chicago, a welcoming city to migrants ‘only on paper’: City faces strains on resources, lack of comprehensive solutions, say city leaders

Kevin Luna, Anjolie Towle, Sarina Singh, and Jacqueline Cardenas • March 12, 2023

In the back of a storefront Adalberto United Methodist Church in Humboldt Park, a 29-year-old man, his wife and young daughter live in a small crowded room in a new city where they hope to carve out a...

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