News WTTW: Volunteers, Faith Leaders Working to Help Unhoused Chicagoans Amid Freezing Temperatures By Emily Soto (WTTW), January 17, 2024 Most of us can avoid Chicago’s frigid temperatures…Vanessa AlvarezJanuary 17, 2024
News Sun-Times: Blankets, gloves, a tent and some propane protect some homeless Chicagoans during ‘brutal’ cold snap By David Struett, Chicago Sun-Times The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless doesn’t perform street outreach, and…Vanessa AlvarezJanuary 16, 2024
News Latino News: ‘Doubling Up’ Homelessness: An Invisible Crisis By Jacqueline Cardenas (Latino News), December 15 2023 Over 68,000 Chicagoans are experiencing homelessness, and…Vanessa AlvarezDecember 15, 2023
Blog Hotel Toledo: Eviction Avoided In April of 2022, CCH learned that the owner of Hotel Toledo, a single room…Vanessa AlvarezJuly 12, 2022
Blog Former Lower Wacker homeless couple reaches settlement with the city of Chicago By Diane O’Connell CCH Community Lawyer Shawn Moore and Amie Smith (Odette Yousef | WBEZ)…chicoalitionMay 29, 2019
News Chicago Tribune: ACLU, homelessness advocates call on Illinois cities to repeal laws prohibiting panhandling, citing First Amendment Abana Tabb panhandles in front of the Chicago Cultural Center in 2015. A coalition on…chicoalitionAugust 28, 2018
News WBBM Newsradio: Advocacy groups warn cities about unconstitutional panhandling ordinances By Mike Krauser More than 200 cities, including 15 in Illinois, are being warned that…chicoalitionAugust 28, 2018
Blog Media Advisory: Panhandling ordinances in 15 Illinois municipalities challenged as unconstitutional From Chicago to Carbondale, 15 municipalities across Illinois have panhandling ordinances that are unconstitutional and…chicoalitionAugust 28, 2018
News Chicago Tribune: Catholic Charities unveils showers for homeless in Chicago Link to photos Catholic Charities has built a shower and laundry facility in its St.…chicoalitionJune 19, 2018
News Chicago Tribune: ‘We don’t have nowhere to go’ – Confusion persists after delayed evictions of Lower Wacker homeless encampment By Tessa Weinberg The piercing whine of drills hitting concrete echoed across Lower Wacker Drive…chicoalitionJune 11, 2018