(AP) Here are highlights of the spending proposal Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn made Wednesday for the 2013 budget year.
With Chicago being home to 3,500 fast food eateries, nearly 4,000 restaurants and the world's largest food festival, Chicago beats out the likes of Houston, New York and Dallas for the honor of being named America's Most Gluttonous city. Adding fuel to the city's gluttonous fire is Chicago's 5th Annual Restaurant Week
DePaul University welcomed the largest donation in DePaul history on Feb. 15: a $30 million contribution to the College of Commerce from Chicago businessman and philanthropist Richard Driehaus.
Our interview with Richard H. Driehaus, who donated $30 million to DePaul's College of Commerce.
Fr. Holtschneider discusses the $30 million donation to the College of Commerce.
DePaul will expand the Lincoln Park campus after Children's Memorial Hospital moves to a new location in Streeterville. The University announced last week that it purchased the hospital's three-story building located at 759 W. Belden Ave., on the southeast corner of Belden Ave. and Halsted St.
If you are the type of person who wishes weekends were five days long and classes occurred only two days a week, imagine what it's like having the shortest spring break of your life. That's what some DePaul students face as March rapidly approaches and the weather gets warmer. In a rare calendar twist, the last day of final exams is Monday, March 19, meaning that spring break starts in the middle of the week on a Tuesday.
The renovation of the John T. Richardson Library is underway with the next phase set to begin July 1, 2013.
On Saturday, Feb. 18, the staff of The DePaulia attended the annual Illinois College Press Association awards at the Doubletree Hotel located off the Mag Mile. At the ceremony, The DePaulia picked up 11 awards, including placing second for General Excellence for non-dailies with over 4,000 students enrolled.
The construction of the new Theatre School is on budget and on track to meet its July 8, 2013, completion date, according to VP of Facilities Operations at DePaul, Bob Janis. The goal is to finish the school as-much-as a month sooner, however, it is still early and Janis is weary about being too confident at the moment.
The Obama administration's mandate for employers to cover birth control has sparked recent debate as tensions between church and state seem to rise. While many have praised the president's provision, there are still many unsatisfied with the controversial compromise.
Student loan debt is gradually presenting itself as the next big financial hurdle nationwide: The average debt students faced from loans exceeded $25,000 in 2010, the highest yet, according to the Project of Student Debt in Oakland.
For many Americans, we never thought we would see the day when a Big Mac and fries could be delivered to your house. Now the idea of fast food delivery is being considered, but not solidified by some McDonald's restaurants in America.
Senior entrepreneurial students are getting hands-on business experience as they work to help the owner of a one-of-a-kind Skokie store.
Beer Pong is typically played amongst college students at DePaul and other universities. The objective is to throw a Ping-Pong ball into a triangle formation of cups. The person who shoots in all of their cups before their opponent wins. However, tables can take up quite a bit of space and some are even undesirable to look at: until a DePaul alum decided to recreate the game and the natural design of Beer Pong by altering a quality aspect to the game—the table.
The Catholic Church is scrutinizing the Obama administration's new mandate requiring religious-based institutions to provide contraception for their employees, despite a new compromise announced Friday. With the mandate's new changes, religious organizations will not have to pay for or directly provide contraceptive services. Along with several other Catholic universities, DePaul University, which is the nation's largest Catholic university, already offers contraceptives in both its fully insured HMO plan and its self-insured PPO plan.
For some DePaul seniors, the stress of being a college graduate won't come after graduation, but instead during the months prior to the day that, for many, will be their final intimate connection with the university. On top of getting mom and dad settled for the weekend, students walking in some colleges are expressing frustration at the chore of finding ways to transport guests back and forth between Rosemont and Chicago.
A DePaul staff member is stepping into his role as an agent of social change and racial awareness. Dean of Students Dr. Art Munin is the author of "Color by Number: Understanding Race Through Facts and Stats on Children", a statistical analysis of race relations in today's society. The book will be available this June.
DePaul students typically recognize the Friday before Memorial Day weekend as the big day for the long awaited FEST. However, as Chicago plans to host the G8 and NATO summits that same week, DePaul Activities Board (DAB) has instead rescheduled the event for June 1.
The Student Government Association is mobilizing the DePaul community to vote during the upcoming primary and general elections.
Imagine leading a company of 200 men into battle and organizing tactical strategies that may ultimately affect hundreds of lives. Imagine dodging IEDs and enemy fire while carrying a 50-pound pack or driving a 67-ton tank through rugged terrain. Imagine taking a life. Now imagine your tour is over and you find yourself sitting in a classroom surrounded by clueless 20-somethings, being talked at by a professor.
DePaul's CDM department just made history. This past fall, select CDM students teamed with students from Japan's Trident College of Computing and became the first academic institutions to work on an international, remote and collaborative game development project.
If several textbooks are cracked open and computer labs in the DePaul library are packed, it can only mean one thing: Midterms! Yet, with noise levels in dorm rooms and crowded libraries, some students are going to extreme lengths to find the perfect study location. This could mean studying in the bathroom. Weird right? Don't knock it until you try it.
With City Council's approval of the remap of Chicago's wards, Lincoln Park residents can rest easy knowing their neighborhood will not be split into five different wards. Not all neighborhoods were so lucky, however.
Imagine living in Chicago your entire life and never stepping foot in one of the city's downtown high-rises. This is a reality for some students at Ruggles Elementary, located on the city's South Side. Their first time seeing downtown views from high up in a skyscraper occurred when they came to the 18th floor of 14 E. Jackson to participate in the Working in the Schools (WITS) program, which started a partnership with the College of Communication this quarter.
Heat and hot water were finally restored to a Lincoln Park apartment building, Sunday, Jan. 29, after nearly a week without the amenities. The City of Chicago took the building owners to court when they failed to restore heat and hot water after a blocked chimney cut off the supply. In order to comply with the court order, the owners installed a temporary chimney until the permanent one can be fixed.
As unappealing as grocery shopping is during the cold winter months, it may pay off to explore options other than the pricey Lincoln Park Dominick's. Students should consider new stores such as Trader Joe's, Wal-Mart Express and Target for their everyday needs.
Newspapers have pledged alliance to particular political candidates and parties for years. Part of the way this happens is with editorial endorsements. So it came as a surprise Jan. 22 when The Chicago Sun-Times announced that they will no longer make endorsements in elections.
Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills due to a packaging error that could raise the risk of an accidental pregnancy by leaving women with an inadequate dose.
Edit. Revise. Repeat. This little lesson, introduced to most in grammar school, stands to make a big impact on DePaul University's faculty.
One out of 4 undergraduate women will be sexually assaulted before they graduate, according to a 2010 Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) study. The study also found that 1 in every 6 American women will be sexually assaulted at some point during their lives. Few reports of sex crimes on college campuses show up in media reports, however, and even fewer are prosecuted by the law.
Chicago Public Libraries will re-open Monday afternoons starting Feb. 6, Mayor Emanuel announced last week. The city is re-allocating $2 million in resources to keep branch locations open six days a week.
The Deptartment of Housing released its January green report card in an effort to show how residence halls are contributing to DePaul's goal of eco-friendliness and sustainability awareness.
The G8/NATO summit is set to take place this May in Chicago and will bring thousands of journalists and political leaders to the city. While the event draws nearer, the former of the two organizations remains as ambiguous as ever.
Doctors say a stroke suffered by Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois has affected his left arm and leg and some facial movement.
There was a time within recent history when attending college was an option. Graduation was an accomplishment, and graduate school was reserved for only those wanting to be doctors or lawyers. Today, that is simply not enough. It seems that many undergraduates are feeling the pressure to expand their education further.
Yellow school busses lined the slushy street of Lawrence Avenue January 15 as supporters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Occupy movement trailed the sidewalks outside The People's Church for the event, "Occupy the Dream."
Four members of the DePaul faculty were recognized for their written work outside of the classroom in The Chicago Tribune's review of favorite local publications in 2011.
The library is a place where students go to study and bury themselves in textbooks, academic journals and articles, but a new collection has transformed it into a place to "unwind." Last week the DePaul University libraries launched a new reading collection called ‘Unwind the Mind' at both campuses to contrast the academic materials that fill its shelves.
If someone were to judge your character based on the information they learned about you on the Internet, what would your digital footprint say about you?
City Council voted on Thursday to pass a new redistricting map that would preserve the Lincoln Park community, and DePaul University.
Students give their quick thoughts on yesterday's "Internet blackout" and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Students who commute from the western suburbs may not know that when they pass the town of Maywood on the regular railroad, they are also passing by the home of a ‘conductor' of the Underground Railroad. As part of DePaul's Urban Historical Archeology Field School, Professor Michael Gregory's fall field experience class began a journey to discover the site of the house of Zebina Eastman.
Former DePaul professor Norman Finkelstein returned to DePaul, Monday, for the first time since his 2007 tenure dispute. Finkelstein began his speech by announcing that he would not be speaking about "academic freedoms", as was widely publicized on campus. Rather, the speech became a personal statement of innocence and an announcement that he has not "moved on" from the injustice he claims to have experienced.
DePaul students may remember in October 2009, when more than 200 students rallied in Springfield to protest a planned 50 percent budget cut to the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP). Another 15 students traveled to Springfield in March of 2011 to continue to show their support for the MAP grant's continued existence.
This year, more than 5,000 DePaul students relied on the Illinois Monetary Award Program to attend university. For twin sisters Ashley and Lauren Maitland, the MAP grant, along with other scholarships, made a difference when they decided to go to this institution.
After a suburban teenager was sexually assaulted outside the Congress Theater last month, DePaul's Student Health Advocates (SHA) encouraged the community to gather Monday, Jan. 9, to help raise awareness to find the still unidentified offenders.
The Multi Purpose Room at DePaul University, which held the 43rd Ward Remap Hearing, Jan. 11, filled fast as Chicagoans came to voice their opinions.
A fire broke out on the 12th floor of a 21-story high-rise apartment building on North Lake Shore Drive Sunday, Jan. 8, resulting in the death of Shantel McCoy, 32, and the injury of nine others. The apartment building, located at 3130 N. Lake Shore Drive, is over 60 years old and does not have up-to-date sprinklers and fire alarms.
DePaul's test-optional admissions policy is underway, and as a result, the climate is slowly starting to change—maybe for the better.
The proposed remapping of the 43rd ward has Lincoln Park residents worried as some may find themselves belonging to one of five different wards if the proposed remapping passes.
DePaul Law Students have to rethink their graduation plans after their ceremony was relocated in anticipation of two important summits in international diplomacy, and G8 and NATO summits, coming to Chicago in May.
DePaul students who received new electronic gadgets over the holiday season, take heed before you dispose of your old machines. You can no longer give that tired, slow laptop the traditional heaveho into the garbage can. As of Jan. 1, it is illegal to throw out old computers in Illinois.
As of Jan. 1, 2012, the Illinois Tollway has demanded a 35 cent I-PASS increase. Fares will range from 75 cents to $3.90, 87 percent higher than the rate commuters have been paying for the last 29 years.
If you passed by the State Street entrance to the 14 E. Jackson building on your way to class last week, you might have noticed a picture of a kind-looking woman surrounded by flowers in the window.
One resident was killed and ten others were injured in the 3100 block of Lake Shore Drive Sunday morning after a 21-story apartment caught fire.
Chicago's annual foodie festival the Taste of Chicago will undergo big changes in 2012. The event will last five days instead of the traditional ten days.
The CTA will charge one penny for rides on all trains and buses starting at 10 p.m. tonight and ending at 4 a.m. tomorrow.
Every year approximately one million visitors come to Chicago to shop at the Christkindlmarket during the holiday season, making it the largest of its kind in the United States.
DePaul celebrated the holiday season by hosting its fifth annual "Christmas at DePaul." The musical event centered on a retelling of the birth of Christ and was held at St. Vincent de Paul Parish earlier this month.
To keep up with the spirit of giving, Chicago charities and organizations did their part this season to make sure everyone has the best holiday possible.
It's often hard to ignore the classic signs of a bad relationship. One with little trust, no communication or cooperation, dissatisfaction and a lack of transparency doesn't exactly paint the picture of a long-lasting partnership.
Lincoln Park is about to get a facelift once Children's Memorial Hospital leaves the neighborhood.
The Board of Trustees selected Patricia O'Donoghue, Ph.D., as DePaul University's Interim Provost for the 2012-2013 academic year.
DePaul alum Carlos Claudio is among several candidates pursuing the judge's seat in the 6th subcircuit court in Cook County.
Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics.
A middle-aged woman with brown hair that hangs to her jaw line is sitting at her office desk, lost in introspection and pouring through documents on her desktop. She is Judith Kolar, director of the Productive Learning Strategies Program—also known as PLuS—at DePaul, and she is on a mission to make school and the workplace more accessible for students with learning differences.
DePaul's College of Commerce received its share of holiday generosity after anonymous donors committed to a $10 million donation to the college from their estate.
Maggie Daley, the wife of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a gracious promoter of the city's cultural and educational programs, has died. She was 68.
A new ordinance proposes that offenders caught in possession with small amounts of marijuana receive a fine instead of jail time.
DePaul students studying abroad in Rome had a once in a lifetime moment earlier this month. They received personal recognition from Pope Benedict XVI during a ceremony at the Vatican.
As students prepare for finals, Public Safety and Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) prepare to address concerns over student and campus safety.
Chicago weather shocked many Thursday as autumn unexpectedly transformed into winter and snow flurries sprinkled through the air on DePaul's campus and around the city.
The CTA Red Line, the city's most used train route which connects DePaul's Lincoln Park and Loop campuses, was delayed yesterday due to an apparent fire in the subway.
Last October, Trojan released the annual "Sexual Health Report Card," an evaluation on the sexual health resources and information available to students. Out of the 141 colleges and universities evaluated, DePaul was ranked dead last. This was not the first time DePaul received such a ranking.
When Helmut Epp announced he would step down as provost at the end of the academic year, the Board of Trustees were left to find someone new to keep the college deans in line to make decisions on and effectively run all of the academic programs in the university.
DePaul students harvested the season's first radishes Nov. 2 at Eden Place, a 3.5-acre nature center in Fuller Park, as part of the university's new service-learning course Urban and Sustainable Agriculture.
A group of concerned citizens are fed up with baggy, saggy pants in their western Chicago neighborhood. The Empowered Citizens of North Lawndale are pressuring 24th Ward Alderman Michael D. Chandler and City Hall for a citywide amendment to include sagging pants in the indecent exposure law.
DePaul's annual canned food drive kicked off in early October in order to fight hunger and poverty in Chicago neighborhoods.
October celebrates more then just colorful leaves and costumes. It's also a month dedicated to awareness of certain issues.
The Irwin W. Steans Center started a collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Affairs-USA (ICA) in a sustainable development project.
Transfer students at DePaul will now have greater opportunities to utilize DePaul's resources with the implementation of the DePaul Admission Partnership Program (DAPP).
A Lincoln Park resident was arrested and charged in connection with recent sexual abuse cases in the DePaul neighborhood Wednesday, Nov. 2.
DePaul remains a top destination for transfer students in Illinois, whose community colleges are the main source of new transfer students for DePaul, accounting for 59 percent during the 2010 Autumn Quarter.
Narcisco Gatica, 22, was sentenced to 90 years for the murder of DePaul honors student, Francisco "Frankie" Valencia on Friday, Oct. 21.
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