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The DePaulia - DePaul's Student Newspaper The DePaulia is DePaul University's award-winning student newspaper. The newspaper is entirely student-run and editorially independent from the university.

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06/30/2025

Amsal Delalić to miss 2025-26 season due to a torn ACL

In the early hours of the morning, Stacey Greene unlocks the doors to Park Bait, a green wood-paneled shack at Montrose ...
06/28/2025

In the early hours of the morning, Stacey Greene unlocks the doors to Park Bait, a green wood-paneled shack at Montrose Point. She files past long, shallow tanks filled with minnows and crawfish, making sure they are properly stocked for the day ahead.

Whether it be a customer whose family has shopped at Park Bait for years stopping back in, or a new face who might have a connection through a parent, Greene always connects with her clients through the stories they share.

“We’ve had dedicated guys come in here that’ll say ‘My dad brought me here,’ or ‘My grandpa brought me here,” Greene said. “I just had a little girl in here yesterday who I’ve been dealing with her and her dad since she was about 7.”

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06/27/2025

Park Bait has been a mecca for Chicago anglers for 90 years

06/19/2025

Violet Clare is building a music career from her Wrigleyville bedroom

06/19/2025

On May 15, the curtain opened in DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre for the last first show of a few The Theatre School seniors. “The Chronicles of the Kaleidoscope Visitors,” which ran through May 31, is classified as a kids show, teaching lessons on how to foster curiosity and practice advocacy for oneself and others. In the show, which takes place on an isolated winter island, Sister Fibonacci (Alejandra Tamez) finds two green creatures, Gorgoo (McClairen Eisenhour) and Gagaa (Cookie Isenberg), who are very obviously out of place. ...

06/14/2025

DePaul reproductive health group to rebrand following university shutdown

06/06/2025

When the Chicago Cubs win at home in Wrigley Field, “Go, Cubs, Go!” echoes throughout Wrigleyville. Fans wear their “W” flags with pride as they leave the ballpark and fill the streets with red and blue. Nearby restaurants and bars wait patiently for fans to trickle in, knowing they will be booming in mere seconds.

Amid the hustle and bustle of 81 home games from April through September, there are apartments and houses where many people live, including some DePaul students.

Emma Wilkie, who graduated from DePaul last June, describes living in Wrigleyville as “a lot happening.”

“Especially in the summer, it’s good and bad,” Wilkie said. “It’s a really unique experience to me to live in a place that feels so anchored in history but also has a really current energy.”

However, not all DePaul students living in Wrigleyville feel connected to the neighborhood in the same way Wilkie does.

“I would say the community aspect of Wrigley is very scarce,” said Luisa Freimuth, a DePaul junior who has lived in Wrigleyville since last June. “Wrigley Field will have events on the lawn that are cute, but I would be curious to know how many of the people that go actually live in the area.”

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When someone enters into DePaul professor Rick Brown’s office, they are met with a wall full of his former students’ hea...
06/04/2025

When someone enters into DePaul professor Rick Brown’s office, they are met with a wall full of his former students’ headshots. Success is pictured row by row with photos of each of his former students who are now working in the broadcast journalism field.

Brown, longtime advisor for Good Day DePaul, is best known for his dry humor and a determination to set students up for success. He will be packing up the portraits and the rest of his office when he retires at the end of the academic year.

“I still get good responses from my students, but I didn’t want to really get to a point where I didn’t think I was doing it as well as I should, and so it just seemed to be the right time," Brown said.

Alyssa Gomez, Brown’s former student who now works at KCCI-TV, said Brown was very attentive during her job search process, staying by her side until she landed a job.

“I wouldn’t be half the journalist I am without his classes and his guidance and his insight and his expertise,” Gomez said. “He quite literally just instilled the confidence in me that I needed to pursue this career in the first place.”

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Chase Stegall, a DePaul men’s soccer player, passed away unexpectedly this morning, June 2, in his residence hall on the...
06/02/2025

Chase Stegall, a DePaul men’s soccer player, passed away unexpectedly this morning, June 2, in his residence hall on the university’s Lincoln Park campus, DePaul President Rob Manuel announced in an email to faculty, staff and students.

“Chase was known for his warmth, strength of character, and vibrant presence – qualities that touched the lives of many both on and off the field,” Manuel said.

Stegall, a 20-year-old sophomore midfielder from Atlanta, Ga., played in 16 of DePaul’s 17 games this past season.

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When asked what this year’s Society of Midland Authors Award means to him, Miles Harvey didn’t talk about prestige, past...
05/31/2025

When asked what this year’s Society of Midland Authors Award means to him, Miles Harvey didn’t talk about prestige, past acclaim or what comes next. He talked about how his book almost didn't exist.

Despite the odds, “The Registry of Forgotten Objects,” a collection more than 30 years in the making, did get published; and not just published, but honored. Harvey took home the 2025 award for Adult Fiction, joining literary heavyweights like Stuart Dybek and Marilynne Robinson as past winners.

After many years of rough drafts and rewriting, the final product is a constellation of stories tied not just by characters but by the quiet presence of physical objects that carry emotion, loss, memory.

“One of the things I love about being a writer is that the work is always going to kick your ass,” he said. “You’re always struggling to figure things out — but that’s what makes it fun.”

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Low afternoon sun soaks into the wooden basketball courts on the third floor of the Ray as DePaul’s pickleball club pepp...
05/31/2025

Low afternoon sun soaks into the wooden basketball courts on the third floor of the Ray as DePaul’s pickleball club peppers the sweat-laden air with echoes of clanking paddles, skidding gym shoes and routine score checks.

Occupying the two courts, players rotate in and out of different pairings and matchups, all while maintaining an exchange of playful chirps and savvy technical tips.

Pickleball is relatively new to the masses. Created in 1965 with ping-pong paddles and a wiffle ball on a badminton court, the sport enjoyed a niche following for decades — stereotypically including stuffy country club members, sun-bronzed southern Californians and the most nimble of the elderly ahead of their 4 o’clock dinners.

Despite the game’s rising popularity, the school was without a formal organization until January 2024, when then-junior Farren Lesko established the pickleball club.

“I thought it was really fun, and DePaul was missing that," said Lesko, a marketing and sports business student. "They had club tennis, so I thought club pickleball would be a great way to bring people together, have fun, be active and make new friends.”

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DePaul senior and performing arts management major Nina Bertuca watches the flurry of people dressed in leather miniskir...
05/28/2025

DePaul senior and performing arts management major Nina Bertuca watches the flurry of people dressed in leather miniskirts brace against the cold as they race into the venue for a sold-out show from DJ Disco Lines. She’s safe inside the temperature-controlled box office, ready for another shift at The Salt Shed.

“I’ve always been interested in working in live music,” Bertuca said. “Any sort of hands-on experience in this industry is huge.”

While Bertuca’s goal is to find a full-time job after graduation, she hopes to stay with The Salt Shed.

“This is a job people love to do because they’re really into music, and because of the perks like comp tickets and attending shows for free,” Bertuca said.

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