News Washington Post: Chicago teachers’ strike demands include push for affordable housing to help homeless students By Kim Bellware For the first time in seven years, teachers in the third-largest U.S.…chicoalitionOctober 16, 2019
News Illinois Radio Network: Lottery to donate to homeless initiative By Greg Bishop The Illinois Lottery is doing its part to address homelessness by setting…chicoalitionOctober 7, 2019
News WBEZ, Curious City: To help homeless kids in Chicago, first you have to find them By Paul Dailing Link to the 8-minute report Streeterville resident Dorothy Lam says she’s…chicoalitionSeptember 21, 2019
News July/August media reports: Panhandling bans unconstitutional, ‘the working homeless,’ HRDI tenants to be displaced, employed and educated people are homeless, too August 27, 2019 The Southern Illinoisan: Carbondale City Council votes to eliminate panhandling prohibition By…chicoalitionAugust 27, 2019
News Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Brown: Homeless advocates ‘deeply disappointed’ by Lightfoot betrayal, shift to ‘business-as-usual’ politics The falling out between the new mayor and the Bring Chicago Home coalition that once…chicoalitionAugust 20, 2019
News Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, Sanctuary: Interview with Doug Schenkelberg In the August edition of Sanctuary, Nisan Chavkin, Executive Director of the Council of Religious…chicoalitionAugust 8, 2019
News Crain’s Chicago Business, Doug Schenkelberg: Chicago, let’s be a leader on solving homelessness Hopes for Chicago series - #Lightfoot100 It can be done. The reasons people become homeless…chicoalitionAugust 6, 2019
News Chicago Tribune, Mary Schmich – ‘My family is my heart’: How Tavarion Foster made his way from homelessness to college By Mary Schmich On a Thursday night in late June, Tavarion Laquon Foster put on…chicoalitionJuly 7, 2019
News The New York Times: ‘I Just Had to Do My Emotional Homework’: How a 30-Year-Old Wrote a Family Saga Claire Lombardo, whose debut novel “The Most Fun We Ever Had” follows a family shaken…chicoalitionJune 21, 2019
News Chicago Sun-Times, Marlen Garcia: Money shouldn’t decide whether a kid can walk across a graduation stage It isolates kids from their classmates. It shames them. By Marlen Garcia, columnist Geneva Baggett’s…chicoalitionMay 16, 2019