By Harry Huggins March 9, 2016 for Medill News Service While Chicagoans line up next Tuesday to vote in the presidential primaries, those who suffer from policy and market failures will be on the streets and in shelters. In 2013, former Governor Pat Quinn signed the Illinois Bill of Rights for the Homeless, which includes… Continue reading CHICAGO’S HOMELESS DISCOURAGED FROM VOTING IN PRIMARIES
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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
PETA Distributes Fur Coats to Bronzeville Homeless
By Harry Huggins January 14, 2015 for Medill News Service The animal rights group, PETA, helped distribute fur coats to homeless women at a Chicago nonprofit women Thursday morning. The coats came from a series of fur donation drives across America and were distributed to the clients of Matthew House in Bronzeville. “The cold hurts… Continue reading PETA Distributes Fur Coats to Bronzeville Homeless
Uptown Activists, Homeless Confront Alderman at Home and Work
November 17, 2015 By Harry Huggins, for Medill Social Justice News Nexus Activists joined homeless residents of Uptown the evening of Nov. 9 to protest police treatment of people living in the nearby tent city. Protesters marched from the enclave off Wilson Avenue and Lake Shore Drive to Alderman James Cappleman’s house, shouting chants and… Continue reading Uptown Activists, Homeless Confront Alderman at Home and Work
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