Reyvin Reyes, a business partner at Moon Melon — a local shop that sells fandom art and crochet items — describes products to customers at his booth in DIBScon’s “artist alley” on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Reyes said that sharing his art with locals and students at university conventions gives him “a lot of fulfillment.”
Jenn Archer, owner of Little Guy Factory — a Chicago-based shop that sells felted art, magnets and key chains — creates a small sculpture at her booth at DIBScon on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Archer said her magnets of DIBS, DePaul’s mascot, sold out quickly at the event.
Carlos Maxwell, a market vendor for Onigiri Kororin, makes a sale to a customer at The Uptown Farmers Market on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Onigiri Kororin is offered at more than 60 stores across the Chicago area.
Different types of onigiri, including fillings like tuna and shrimp, are displayed at the Onigiri Kororin stand at The Uptown Farmers Market on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Onigiri Kororin is a small business that sells Japanese rice balls, co-founded by Yuta Katsuyama in 2020.
Tyesha Thomas, a PPGA organizer, discusses healthy relationship boundaries with student attendees and PPGA members during a “Pillow Talk” event on campus on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. The recurring event aims to improve sex education among students.
Madison Webb, president of PPGA, shares her opinion during the “Pillow Talk” event on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. During the segment, attendees were asked whether they “agree” or “disagree” with various statements about relationships.
Dwanye Armstrong protests against a federal judge, who he says “didn’t do her job,” outside of Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. He said he was “disappointed” with the judge’s treatment of his case and plans to keep demonstrating in the future, despite having protested for five days already.
Vincent Johnson performs blues music on his guitar for pedestrians passing by the Art Institute of Chicago on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Johnson said he has played blues music for over 50 years and enjoys performing on the street because it feels "adventurous" and allows him to “get in touch with the people.”
Lou Mena, treasurer of DePaul Urban Gardeners (DUG), instructs members on tasks that need to be completed around the garden at a club meeting on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. The club centers on exploring urban agriculture and supporting local food systems.
Club member Nicholas Davidson harvests a carrot from the garden on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. The club leadership team guides inexperienced members by teaching them how and when to harvest vegetables.
Members of DePaul Chemistry Club play with elephant toothpaste — a quick-expanding foam — during the club’s “Chemist’s Cauldron” event on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The event was a Halloween celebration where members got to do spooky-themed experiments while eating candy and pizza.
Vinnie Castaldo, secretary of DUG, shows off a head of broccoli he harvested from the garden on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. Food grown by the club is either given to members or donated to Love Fridges, an organization that stocks fridges full of free food around the city of Chicago.
Michelle Khongorzul, president of DePaul Chemistry Club, hands Mars Paloma a bottle of dye during a demonstration on how to make elephant toothpaste at the “Chemist’s Cauldron” event on Thursday, Oct. 30. As audience members watched the presentation, Khongorzul explained how the chemicals they used reacted together to create the fluffy substance.
A woman stops to pet a the dog while Lisa Saeger, a volunteer at Anti-Cruelty, holds a sign to advertise an Adoptable Pup Parade to pedestrians on the Riverwalk on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Anti-Cruelty, an animal welfare organization, hosts the parades to offer city residents “fun, social interactions” with their dogs.
From left, Kelly Nelson, Lisa Saeger, Cole Lockwood, Kamari Perry, Marie Boucher and Darian Davis advertise adoptable dogs during Anti-Cruelty’s Pup Parade on the Riverwalk on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Saeger said the event is usually very successful as dogs are frequently adopted during it.
A group of students and an employee gather near DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus to deliver a petition to university administration on behalf of food service workers on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. The petition demanded that DePaul’s new food service provider, Aramark, honor former employees’ contracts as it replaces the university’s former company, Chartwells Higher Ed.
DePaul student Ashanti Johnson speaks about how important the well-being of food service employees is to students in front of the Student Center on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. “They are family to us,” Johnson said. “Some workers have served the DePaul community for two, three decades.”
DePaul student Daniel Mullin fastens an anti-Aramark button onto his backpack after the petition delivery on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Group members passed buttons out to students on DePaul’s campus throughout the event.