Waking up at 4 a.m. is not unusual for Jessenia Martinez, a senior at DePaul. It’s even enjoyable. On a cold and icy January morning, rather than staying in bed, Martinez was up and ready to volunteer...

For DePaul freshman Erin Hammond, helping manage the Earth Week Festival on DePaul’s Quad in 40 degree weather was not a challenge.  Hammond grew up on a 975-acre farm in North Central Iowa, waking...

It’s 5 p.m. and the Loop cafeteria is filled with hungry DePaulians. A microwave beeps in the background but goes unnoticed by the 20 or so scattered students sitting on the silver, light-as-air...

The nearly completed Fullerton Revetment Project created 5.8 miles of new shoreline and a redesigned lakefront trail accessible from Fullerton Avenue. The City of Chicago, the Park District and the...

Two separate fundraisers organized by current and former DePaul students collected female hygiene products to donate to homeless and women’s shelters last month. Both fundraisers were small and grassroots,...

Members of the DePaul community gathered Thursday to hear Noi Supalai, a former garment worker and union president from Bangkok, Thailand, speak about her experience working for a Thai clothing factory...

Students at Loyola University can now protest on campus without the institution’s approval — a right students at DePaul University do not have.  According to DePaul’s policy, students are...

In light of the drama of Illinois’ ongoing budget impasse, legislators in Springfield are best known by their party affiliation. But for the first time, a group of students from DePaul got a closer,...

More Chicagoans rode the ‘L’ in 2015 than ever before in the city’s history. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced that there were 241 million rides last year, 3.5 million more than...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner used his State of the State address Wednesday to make another case for changes he says would make Illinois more competitive, even as he...

In 2011, DePaul professor Valerie Johnson turned on her television to find that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the Trayvon Martin case. A feeling of disbelief overwhelmed her.  “You see...

The Illinois State House of Representatives will vote on a budget bill this Tuesday that contains funding for the Monetary Assistance Program (MAP), a financial aid system that provides more than $370...