By Harry Huggins February 24, 2016 for Medill News Service Fredrick Dennis, Darrin Brown and Cecil Palmer are three young men renovating their own apartment on Chicago’s West Side. They’re part of the MAC House, a new program from the Lawndale Christian Legal Center that combines transitional housing with job training. The guys in the… Continue reading AUDIO: CHICAGO LEGAL CENTER PILOTS JOB TRAINING, HOUSING PROGRAM
Month: February 2016
AUDIO: LOGAN SQUARE PROTESTERS FEAR GENTRIFICATION
By Harry Huggins February 17, 2016 for Medill News Service On a freezing cold Thursday morning, a dozen protesters gathered outside a Blue Line station in Logan Square. They handed out flyers to the commuters sidling by them, and they chanted. “We are many! We are tough! Ten percent is not enough!” They marched in… Continue reading AUDIO: LOGAN SQUARE PROTESTERS FEAR GENTRIFICATION
AUDIO: VOLUNTEERS COUNT CHICAGO’S HOMELESS
By Harry Huggins February 10, 2016 for Medill News Service Hundreds of volunteers canvased Chicago late Jan. 26 to count every person sleeping in the city’s parks and underpasses. I drove around Chicago’s Near West Side with Dorothy Yancy, Phoebe DePree and Carolyn Hankins-Page for five hours that night as part of the annual point… Continue reading AUDIO: VOLUNTEERS COUNT CHICAGO’S HOMELESS
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