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The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago’s legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants, according to government officials, and turn it into a unified shelter structure, an idea advocates for the homeless have long championed. The “One System Initiative” will shift a “permanent shelter management to the non-profit workforce,” Illinois Department of Human ...

Amid growing hardship for low-income older adults, a federal program has helped over 1 million people get jobs and work training.

Brian Rodgers, 50, had a typical upbringing, growing up with a working mother and grandmother who he said gave him everything he needed to succeed. But along the way, his values got misaligned from what he was taught. That landed him in jail many times. “If you add all of my time out, which has been in and out, I never spent more than nine months on the street in the last 15 years,” he said. ...

Chicago weather brought rain to Sunday's Lollapalooza 2023 crowd ahead of the highly-anticipated Red Hot Chili Peppers performance.

Lollapalooza 2023 continues in Grant Park for day three, with Odesza and Tomorrow by Together, the first K-pop band to headline at the festival.

Lollapalooza 2023 continues in Grant Park for day two, with Kendrick Lamar headlining Friday night.

Lollapalooza 2023 kicks off in Grant Park Thursday, with a lineup including Billie Eilish, Diplo and more.

July 25, 2023 Youth Homelessness: Federal and Local PerspectivesJeff Olivet- U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Carolyn K. Ross- All Chicago, Bryan Samuels- Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago City Club event description: The pandemic, affordable housing shortages, and inflation have exacerbated homelessness in major cities throughout the U.S., and Chicago is no exception. In […]

A Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ investigation found school officials failed to protect these welcoming schools and the $155 million invested in them over time.

Chicago is one of six sites selected for new initiative to address unsheltered homelessness.