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Freshman Alex Guyton was sitting in his dorm room bed early in the early morning hours of May 6 when a friend and fellow DePaul student FaceTimed him. Guyton’s friend walked down Fullerton Avenue on their way back to the dorms after visiting a friend off-campus. The two spoke to make sure Guyton’s friend safely...

Since the first week of April, weekly Covid-19 infections have risen by 78 percent in the neighborhoods surrounding DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, with last week tallying the most infections during the period. Zip codes housing the Chicago neighborhoods of Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wrigleyville and Uptown have all reported a steady rise in weekly infections over...

Citywide, about 80% of households have internet access, but researchers with the University of Chicago’s Internet Equity Initiative said there is a nearly 40 percentage-point difference between certain neighborhoods.

A new analysis by the University of Chicago has revealed vast differences in internet connectivity across the city, with some neighborhoods reporting more than one-third of households offline.

“Dread. Panic. What [is he] going to do next?” This is what ran through DePaul freshman Hailey Bosek’s mind on an October morning this past fall. Bosek stood on the Fullerton platform for the late-arriving Red Line train when a middle-aged male turned his attention to her, approached, and began to spew vulgar remarks. “He...

Hospitals serve high-risk populations, and experts say the slightest deviation in food safety should be addressed.