Each year, CCH presents college scholarships to promising students who have graduated from the Chicago Public Schools despite experiencing homelessness during high school. I was reminded tenfold last Tuesday, the night of our 7th annual scholarship awards ceremony, why I tell people that it is my favorite CCH event.
 

Last night I had the privilege and pleasure of attending the ceremony in which the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless bestows its annual college scholarship awards.

The Chicago Bar Foundation has been a great force for the support of civil legal services for the poor and a great supporter of the work of the CCH Law Project. Each July, the foundation and the Chicago Bar Association host an awards luncheon to honor Chicago's most outstanding public interest and public service lawyers.

Hats off to the hundreds of Sweet Home Chicago (SHC) supporters who came to last week's City Council committee hearing on the SHC ordinance.  It was wonderful to hear an organized littany of benefits that will accrue to Chicago neighborhoods and families if tax increment financing (TIF) dollars are used to create and rehab afford

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