DePaul will pay $12.5 million more than the previously planned $70-75 million for the university’s new basketball arena in the South Loop, bringing DePaul’s new estimated amount to $82.5 million. In...

CHICAGO (AP) — Several Chicago-area universities are joining forces to help persuade President Barack Obama to build his library at the University of Chicago and not in New York, Honolulu or across...

Chicago is a getting a raise. The city council on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of Mayor Emanuel’s plan to raise the city’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2019. The move comes after...

[slideshow_deploy id='5876'] Former Mayor Jane Byrne was remembered Monday at St. Vincent de Paul Church by Chicagoans of all different backgrounds gathering for her funeral service. The service,...

Anyone who regularly passes by Clark Street and Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park knows Jackie Robinson, or would at least recognize him.  He is one of thousands in Chicago who after a combination of bad...

Jane Byrne, who capitalized on Chicago’s slow reaction to a snowstorm to score one of the biggest election upsets in the city’s history and become its first female mayor, died Friday. She was 81. Byrne,...

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or a 22-year-old DePaul senior, coming home from the gym to her Lincoln Park apartment on a late afternoon in September, the first sign of trouble was the furniture, normally neatly...

  Governor-elect Bruce Rauner (R-Winnetka) called for bipartisan solutions to the state’s problems as he declared victory last week in the state’s gubernatorial contest against incumbent...

By the end of the 2012 elections, Democrats were riding a momentous wave. President Barack Obama won re-election by a fair margin. Democrats won seven of the 11 governor seats up for grabs. Although...

For Chicago college students like Venice Adams, raising the minimum wage in Illinois is the only way to continue pursuing a college degree. Adams, a senior at Columbia College Chicago, works two minimum-wage...

DePaul students who use Metra should expect to pony up as the commuter transit agency announced that it will increase its fares by an average of 10.8 percent as early as this February. The transit...