DePaul wants to actually play in Chicago: The options

Contrary to what you may have thought you knew about DePaul's men's basketball team, they've been playing their home games for the past 32 years in a Chicago suburb about 15 miles from campus. The Allstate Arena is actually located in suburban Rosemont, and the Blue Demons have struggled to get fans into the arena's 17,500 seats since they started playing there. It's the longstanding problem with off-campus arenas: (the majority of) students don't want to travel to games. Sure, the school offers free shuttles from campus both to and from the games in addition to free tickets and other gimmicks, but DePaul still ranked 12th in Big East home game average attendance last season with an average of 7,740 reported tickets sold. Only Seton Hall (6,941), Rutgers (5,362) and South Florida (3,849) did worse. Syracuse (23,618) led the way. That depite the fact that DePaul has more total students (graduate and undergraduate combined), with 25,398 students that study...