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Coat drives near Detroit

Stacker compiled a list of coat drives near Detroit using data from One Warm Coat.

Daywatch: Should Illinois make judges undergo training on sexual assault cases?

Good morning, Chicago. Over the years, Carrie Ward’s organization, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, has worked with law enforcement agencies and attorneys across the state on how to better understand the complexities of sexual violence cases. But one part of the criminal justice system has been largely absent from that training: judges. Since 2018, all Illinois police officers ...

Travelers Aid Society has provided succor to lost and lonely new arrivals to Chicago since the late 1800s

In October 1924, Kalliope Koyka got off a train in Chicago wearing a tag pinned on her by an agent of the Travelers Aid Society. Speaking virtually no English, the 7-year old was looking for her parents. They had left her with relatives in Greece when they came to America two years earlier. Lord knows how she got through immigration at Ellis Island. But someone must have brought her to the ...

The Travelers Aid Society has helped new arrivals for decades

After New Orleans sweeps away a homeless encampment, some residents have nowhere to go

NEW ORLEANS — Jullian Jefferson has been living on the street for three years. On Wednesday, his tent was set up under the Pontchartrain Expressway overpass, in a row of

After New Orleans sweeps away a homeless encampment, some residents have nowhere to go

New Orleans to clear one of city's largest homeless camps | Local Politics

City officials are permanently closing one of New Orleans' largest homeless encampments this week, the first time an area will be fenced off and patrolled as part of a massive

Albany organizations partner for Code Blue

ALBANY >> When temperatures dip to under 10-degrees or if there’s a foot of snow on the ground, some area organizations pooled the resources to issue a Code Blue to get people who are living on the streets into a warm environment. “We don’t want anyone to freeze to death on those cold nights,” said […]

Throwback Thursday | Eureka Inn opens new barber shop in 1923

“Guests at the Eureka Inn, as well as residents of Eureka, are finding the new barber shop a great convenience,” the newspaper said. “The shop was opened a couple of weeks ago in the room formerly occupied by the California State Automobile Association on the first floor.

Salt Lake City Plans to Open a Temporary Shelter to Help Combat Growing Homelessness Issue

Salt Lake City attempts to address growing homelessness issue by opening a temporary shelter with 50 pod units.