Chicago Sun-Times put out two great columns on Sunday, one by Mark Brown and the other by Mary Mitchell.

In "Think CTA trains are bad? Try living there," Brown writes about a woman who lived on the Red Line for nearly two years.  She is now housed thanks to a supportive-housing facility operated by Mercy Housing Lakefront, a group which, Brown writes, "that does as much as anybody in Chicago to house the homeless."
Follow the link to read Brown's column.

And in "Mercy Home delivers bright future to teen,"  Mitchell writes about a college-bound graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep who lived in Mercy Home for Boys and Girls after a childhood of instability. Follow the link to read Mitchell's column.