{"id":3830,"date":"2024-05-04T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:23:17","slug":"de-paul-pop-culture-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"DePaul Pop Culture Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Celebration of Star Wars: Episode XI: The Conference Strikes Back happened at DePaul University downtown. With keynote speakers Claudia Gray and Carmelo Esterrich, there were a ton of fun topics centered around Star Wars. Chicago Force attended and then ran around the corner to Graham Crackers comics for Free Comic Book Day. Then a delicious dinner afterwards, a great day was had by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"DePaul
We’re here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Three
Looks like we are at the right place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Five
Chicago Force represent!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Claudia
Entourage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Man
Our faculty sponsor and Claudia Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Claudia
Claudia Gray talking Star Wars books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Man
Introductions for Carmelo Esterrich before a great talk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Claudia
Author Signing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Author
So exciting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Author
Right there please.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"People
Quick stop for Free Comic Book Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cosplayers\"
Photo op!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"People
Dinner afterwards at The Exchequer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Celebration of Star Wars: Episode XI: The Conference Strikes Back happened at DePaul University downtown. With keynote speakers Claudia Gray and Carmelo Esterrich, there were a ton of fun topics centered around Star Wars. Chicago Force attended and then … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5],"tags":[51,36,149],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookclub","category-outings","tag-book-club","tag-conventions","tag-signings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coruscant.chicagoforce.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}