My pleasure.
A couple of more notes:
The most interesting building on campus is the theater school. It is off by itself to an extent. Very cool structure that looks nothing like any other building.
The L stop is right next to/on campus. It does make travel fairly worry free. I found the L to be clean and simple. It is a good system. DePaul giving a “free” pass to all students is a great idea and a major plus. We used the Red Line to get to the Loop campus and the stop was about a block away from the Barnes and Noble that serves as the DePaul’s downtown bookstore. Could not be easier.
Since a vast majority of student’s live off campus after freshman year, we have spent quite a bit of time comparing apartment locations and pricing to a couple of other colleges. Apartments in Chicago near the Lincoln Park campus - which is the center of activity so even if you take most classes on the Loop campus you probably want to live near the main campus - are pricey. Not New York expensive or Boston expensive but not a bargain like Philly. Philly is so cheap that we had to consider the money saved from living off campus as part of the cost savings - and when extrapolated over four years it was substantial. It equated to a summer and a half of fulltime work.
Truthfully, living off campus of a large state university can also chew up a lot of travel time. Some of these universities are massive and you can spend 20-30 minutes traveling between classrooms. That will not happen at DePaul if you are on either campus.
We ate at a little restaurant right across from DePaul called Jam N’ Honey. It was quite tasty. That is when we noticed the taxes: 10.25%. They also have a 3% soda tax. That is stiff. I believe the taxes in Chicago are some of the highest in the country. That, too, has to be included in cost calculations.
There cannot be many colleges that have a Whole Foods on campus. In fact, the top of the building has a DePaul dormitory.