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...

Consent the D, the student-led movement aimed at raising awareness about sexual violence and consent, ended abruptly when the group was issued a cease and desist from the university. DePaul’s Office...

  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...

Twenty-five thousand dollars could buy a sailboat, a new Toyota Prius, 25 flights round-trip from Chicago to Tokyo or a night in a Grand Deluxe room at the Trump International Tower, for a month. Yet...

Students have been traveling near and far to find the sparsest of grocery stores, but their struggles are all about to end when Whole Foods opens up on campus in February 2015. This will be the second...