Altering perceptions: One DePaul student’s path to housing security
Mackenzie Murtaugh, News Editor
May 28, 2019
It was getting to class every day that made it so hard for Dom. He would leave the shelter, get to the train and make sure the attendant wasn’t looking so he could hop the turnstile and run. The fare wasn’t an expense Dom cared to pay, and the more he jumped the turnstile, the easier it became. ...
Dax Program utilizes housing-first model to uplift in-need DePaul students
Mackenzie Murtaugh, News Editor
April 22, 2019
When housing insecurity strikes, students might fear that their options are limited. Moving back home, couch surfing or sleeping on the train become realities for students who are unable to secure a lease or afford on-campus housing. For DePaul students, another option waits for them on the 12th flo...
Chicago bands together to help the homeless during deep freeze
Emma Oxnevad, Asst. News Editor
February 4, 2019
As Chicago hit record-low temperatures last week, a number of organizations in the city and the surrounding areas took extra measures to ensure the safety of homeless residents. Chicago was blitzed by a series of days marred by extreme cold weather, reaching a low of 23 degrees below zero on Wednesd...
Homeless find refuge in Lincoln Park
December 2, 2015
Tyrone Alexander walked down the street, restlessly jumping on top of every passing curb. When he was a young man, Alexander ran away to similar streets to escape hostile parents back home. He then joined the Marine Corps as an engineer for 11 years, but after “becoming sick in the mind,” as he called it, he left t...
40 percent of homeless youth are LGBTQ—and we’re not doing enough about it
March 17, 2015
Parents have kicked their gay and transgender kids out of their homes due to lack of acceptance, intolerance, bigotry and hate on countless occasions. These kids are then forced to move from place to place; they couch surf, stay with different relatives, and sleep in their cars, on the train or on the...
City of light, city of blight: Many in Chicago struggle with poverty and homelessness
November 16, 2014
Anyone who regularly passes by Clark Street and Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park knows Jackie Robinson, or would at least recognize him. Read More »...
Homelessness: The plight of Chicago’s poor
October 12, 2014
Heidi and Ronnie have been living on the unforgiving streets of Chicago for more than three years. Heidi, a single mother of three, found herself exhausted by the struggles of being the sole financial supporter of herself and her three girls. Read More »...
October 19, 2019 • No Comments
Chicago parents leaned on family, friends and community groups as 25,000 teachers in the nation's third-largest...
College of Science and Health hosts climate change experts at DePaul
October 19, 2019
DePaul College of Science and Health associate professor and department chair...
Man indicted after driving through suburban Chicago mall
October 18, 2019
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of driving an SUV through a suburban...
School’s out: Chicago teachers strike
October 18, 2019
Striking teachers marched in picket lines outside hundreds of Chicago schools...