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The Orange Tent Project worked with architecture students to design a small but secure wooden structure that they believed would not require permits. Last week, days after construction began, the city issued a work stoppage order.

With proceeds from Plants Delivered Chicago, Andy Robledo has helped provide the local unhoused community temporary housing, thousands of meals, and compassion.

With temperatures rising above zero after a winter storm battered the Midwest over the holiday weekend, Chicago’s unhoused community, advocates are asking for “stability.”

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a massive storm sent temperatures crashing and created whiteout conditions. More than 200 million people — about 60% of the U.S. population —

Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter

Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures and blizzard conditions that cancelled 5000 flights in a huge storm that stretched from border to border.

Volunteers, outreach groups and city workers spread across the city as extreme cold temperatures took hold, raising concerns about the danger to unsheltered people and other vulnerable populations. And at least one man, a 54-year-old, died from the severe weather.

Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning.

More than 200 million people were under an advisory or warning on Friday, the National Weather Service said.