Burke faces new charges in superseding indictment
May 30, 2019
One of the most powerful City Council members in Chicago history faces new federal charges that include racketeering. Among the charges in the superseding indictment handed down Thursday is that Edward M. Burke threatened to oppose a Chicago museum's admission fee increase because it didn't respond...
Chicago mayor gets first reforms through City Council
May 29, 2019
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has begun implementing reform to Chicago's City Hall. During her first time chairing a City Council meeting, Lightfoot got aldermen to go along with her picks to chair council committees that will vote on key parts of her agenda. The aldermen also approved new operating rules...
Lightfoot promises she will govern for communities, not corporations
Benjamin Conboy, Editor-in-Chief
May 28, 2019
When she took the stage on Monday, May 20, Lori Lightfoot made history. Lightfoot was inaugurated as the 56th mayor of Chicago, but she is the first black woman and the first openly gay person to ever hold the job. At her inauguration, she spoke poetically of Chicago’s lure, of its checkered past and...
Lori Lightfoot sworn in as Chicago mayor; vows big reforms
Michael Tarm, Associated Press
May 20, 2019
Lori Lightfoot told aldermen and other city powerbrokers assembled at her inauguration Monday as Chicago's first black woman mayor that she meant what she said on the campaign trail about top-to-bottom reforms in the nation's third largest city. "For years, they've said Chicago ain't ready for reform,"...
COMMENTARY: Chicago will remember Emanuel as he was, not as he wants
Benjamin Conboy, Editor-in-Chief
May 20, 2019
Rahm Emanuel walked out of his City Hall for the final time as mayor of Chicago on Friday. The paintings depicting an industrial Chicago that hung on the walls of his fifth-floor office were gone. The room he had occupied for eight years looked barren, cold and empty. A political heavyweight who ruled...
Lightfoot becomes first African American woman to lead Chicago
Benjamin Conboy, Editor in Chief
April 2, 2019
Lori Lightfoot will be the first African American woman to be the mayor of the city of Chicago, defeating political heavyweight Toni Preckwinkle in a historic landslide election. Lightfoot won the election with 73.6 percent of the vote to Preckwinkle’s 26.3 percent, the largest margin of victory i...
Bianca Cseke, Online Editor
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A stabbing of a recent graduate. A fatal stabbing on the Red Line near Wintrust Arena. A series of robberies...
DePaul’s student housing policies frustrate some new freshmen
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Freshmen roommates Sierra Reiynolds and Maureen Andersen said they have had...
DePaul professor formerly under fire for use of ‘N-word’ in teaching exercise rehired
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DePaul Professor Donald Hermann, who came under fire in 2018 for repeated use...
DePaul celebrates Latinx Heritage Month
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Latinx Heritage Month kicked off across the U.S. on Sunday, Sept. 15 to celebrate...