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Blackhawks fans swarm Wrigleyville after Stanley Cup win

Blackhawks fans swarm Wrigleyville after Stanley Cup win

Brenden Moore June 16, 2015

[slideshow_deploy id='12651'] Chaos and jubilation erupted in the streets of Wrigleyville Monday night as Blackhawks fans took to the streets to celebrate the team’s third Stanley Cup victory in just...

A rendering of the Belmont Red, Purple and Brown Line station showing the future flyover project. (Photo courtesy of CTA)

CTA’s Belmont flyover project in limbo

Danielle Harris, Former news editor May 31, 2015

Comparing the railroad bottleneck just north of Belmont where northbound Brown Line trains cross over Red and Purple Line tracks to “a traffic signal in the middle of a busy interstate highway,”...

Mark Walsh has been the campaign director at the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence for the past eight years, helping lead the organization’s charge against concealed carry. (Teresa Garcia Alonso / The DePaulia)

Concealed carry debate in Chicago has many faces

Qudsiya Siddiqui and Teresa Garcia Alonso May 31, 2015

Mike Parker served four years of active duty in the United States Army. After transitioning to the Army Reserves in 2013, he moved to Chicago where he was robbed twice at knifepoint in the city. In the...

The millions of gallons of river water released into the lake during intense storms has increased over the past 20 years. When rainfall overwhelms the city’s sewer system and water treatment plants it flows into the river. To keep the river from overflowing onto city streets, officials from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District are forced to open the locks from the river and release the combined sewer and rain water into Lake Michigan. (Megan Deppen / The DePaulia)

Sewer system overload in Chicago

Megan Deppen May 24, 2015

The clock had just struck midnight when DePaul senior Austin Downs first noticed the water pooling on his bedroom floor. As the July storm raged on outside, he paused his movie and opened his door to...

Lincoln Park High School, located just blocks away from DePaul’s campus, is part of CPS.  (Photo courtesy of Kseferovic | Wikimedia Commons)

CPS’ future uncertain as tough decisions loom

Jackson Danbeck May 17, 2015

After a historic mayoral election when Chicago Public Schools (CPS) was the center of debates across Chicago, the school district has sparked controversy on a host of issues, which many Chicagoans find...

Students graduating from community colleges like College of DuPage (above) and Harry S. Truman College save money, and many transfer to larger universities. Many DePaul transfer students count themselves as alumni of the College of DuPage, located in Chicago’s western suburbs, and Harry S. Truman College in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Graduates from Chicago Public Schools who maintained a B average in high school get free tuition at Truman. (Photo courtesy of COD Newsroom)

Weighing the pros and cons of community college

Maria Garcia May 17, 2015

In the summer of 2005, Susan Motley, 56, began her journey towards a bachelor’s degree after witnessing her son, who decided he didn’t want to go to college, graduate high school.  “I had talked...

Murals in Pilsen bring neighbors together to fight the influx of outside development. Activists say the identity of the neighborhood is at stake, in addition to local businesses who are being displaced.  (Photo courtesy of Creative Commons)

Pilsen community fight gentrification with murals

Olivia Mohseni May 17, 2015

[slideshow_deploy id='11998'] On a cold and gloomy morning earlier this year, Chicagoans protested the gentrification of the Pilsen neighborhood.  Signs were taped to the front of the hip new coffee...

Karen Lewis (right) leads the charge at the Chicago Teachers Union strike in 2012. It was the first strike in 25 years and current contract negotiations may cause conflict again. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Teachers union vs. school board: Chicago’s contract debate

Brenden Moore May 10, 2015

Opening shots were fired between the cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) last week after the school board declined to extend its contract with the teachers,...

A bike rental on East Randolph street in the loop makes getting around the city convenient for tourists. These resources are concentrated in the loop and the northside, while safe bike lanes and the city rental Divvy bikes remain are lacking on the South and West sides. (Josh Leff / The DePaulia)

Chicago bikers petition for safer lanes on South and West sides

Evan Walter, Kathryn Eardley, and Gabby Hock May 10, 2015

On the Near North and West sides of the city bike routes connect and intersect to create clusters of protected routes for bicyclists. Meanwhile, on the Far South Side this web loosens into long stretches...

Chicago gets Obama library

Brenden Moore May 10, 2015

President Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum is coming to sweet home Chicago after all, aided by the transfer of parkland on proposed sites to the city as well as legislation to make potential...

A small group of protesters marches on 15th Place near Kedzie Avenue in Chicago April 20 after a Cook County judge threw out all the charges against veteran Chicago Police detective Dante Servin, who was on trial for fatally shooting Rekia Boyd during an off-duty incident in March 2012, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove that the detective acted recklessly. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Chicago activists sympathize with Baltimore

Brenden Moore May 3, 2015

A “teach-in” was held on DePaul’s Loop campus Wednesday night to explain the controversial acquittal of a Chicago detective charged with manslaughter in the 2012 death of Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old...

(Parker Asmann / The DePaulia)

#SaveColumbia marches in backdrop of NFL Draft

Parker Asmann May 3, 2015

Tucked behind the backdrop of the NFL Draft, individuals gathered along Michigan Avenue on a flawless May afternoon in front of Columbia College’s administrative offices with demands that would have...

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