SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday, Feb. 15 laid out a $49.6 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for significant new spending for early…
SPRINGFIELD – For Illinois’ homeless populations and those that serve them, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a crisis — the volunteer, mostly faith-based shelters that had long…
SPRINGFIELD – The House on April 22 passed House Bill 2775, introduced by Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago. The bill amends the state’s Homelessness Prevention Act by creating additional…
Even in the best of economic times, suburban nonprofits working to reduce homelessness and advocating for affordable housing struggle to get the word out. Poverty and homelessness are…
Volunteers get a taste of life on the streets as part of fundraiser About 50 volunteers are signed up to willingly sleep in cardboard boxes outside the Peoria Civic Center Friday, Jan….
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday, Sept. 3 issued an executive order, launching a comprehensive and integrated approach to fighting homelessness in Illinois. The order establishes the Illinois…
SPRINGFIELD – Housing advocates including former Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti joined state Rep. La Shawn Ford and state Sen. Karina Villa Tuesday, April 13 to call for support…
Longstanding Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS) volunteer Michelle Bratton of Woodridge says she has joked with some of the shelter’s guests that “she hopes she never sees…
’70s rockers from Pezband still ...“It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock ’n’ ...
Notorious West Side Chicago drug ...“I know I ain’t going to be around forever. You dig what ...
Minooka man’s Ponzi scheme ensnares ...A Ponzi scheme conducted by convicted Minooka businessman Kenneth Courtright is proving ...
Empty chairs remember lives cut ...Second in a series looking at drug-induced homicides The picture of a ...
