For as long as Bruce Finkelman can remember, the Morton Salt factory has set his heart racing. It’s not that he gets salt cravings any worse than the next guy. Rather, he remembers that when he was 12 years old, in the car with his parents on the Kennedy, the sight of the umbrella-toting girl […]
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Escalating violence and lack of police response put the city’s homeless even more at risk
A string of fires and stabbings have many advocates worried, and challenges in reporting and investigating these crimes leave little hope for justice.
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Adam Gogola, front man of Blind Adam & the Federal League
“When you look around your community, it’s easy to help the people around you. And once you start doing that, it’s easier to understand how we can effect change.”
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Hundreds test positive for COVID-19 at Chicago’s homeless shelters
The city’s response is improving, but still “not adequate.”
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Homeless during a pandemic
Chicagoans without shelter face the tough choice between the streets and shared air.
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Metro hosts a memorial for musician and mensch Rob Warmowski
Metro hosts a memorial for musician and mensch Rob Warmowski, Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum teases an imminent album of spooky electro, and more.
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Are tiny houses a solution to homelessness in Chicago?
The push for a small answer to a massive problem
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Chicago police commonly confiscate and throw away the tents of the homeless
CPD’s policy seems more concerned with optics than with law and order.
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Project Fierce sets out to open a shelter for LGBTQ youth
A local nonprofit hopes to open a shelter on either the south or west side of Chicago.
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Why you should read “Invisible Child”
The New York Times series on a homeless child is a damning indictment of our nation’s shameful inequality.
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A poem written by a teenager to the mother she never knew
“My World Inside the Womb,” a poem by 18-year-old Isis Cook
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Pariahs amid the rainbow
Pariahs amid the rainbow: young, queer, and homeless in Boystown
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The 1995 Reader Story That Just Got a Sun-Times Reporter Handcuffed
A 1995 Reader story sparks a protest at Stroger Hospital; Sun-Times reporter cuffed.