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The Oak Park village board of trustees designated $1 million to Housing Forward for renovations at The Write Inn, a temporary shelter site for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. 

Cook County Commissioners approved the use of federal COVID-19 funds for the Evanston nonprofit Connections for the Homeless to purchase the Margarita Inn, a former upscale hotel very near downtown Evanston that has operated as a long-term homeless shelter since the early days of the pandemic. Despite concerns from some neighbors, Connections is set to receive $7 million to help secure the ...

Oak Park has done more over two decades to bring shelter, empathy and needed social services to unhoused people than any community we know. Under the umbrella of what is now Housing Forward, communities of faith, funders of all stripes, adjacent nonprofits and village leaders have collaborated in ways resourceful and caring.

Cook County Spends $13.5 Million To Buy Hotels In Evanston, Oak Park - Evanston, IL - Commissioners approved a plan to buy Evanston's Margarita Inn and Oak Park's Write Inn and give them to nonprofits for homeless shelters.

Using some of the federal dollars Cook County received to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic, county commissioners Thursday OK’d spending nearly $14 million to transform two suburban hotels into shelters for people who are homeless and $8 million on a water bill relief plan. The board voted to award a $7 million, no-interest, fully forgivable 30-year loan to Connections for the Homeless Inc. so ...

The county was already helping rent the former hotels in Evanston and Oak Park. The plan won approval from the full board, though some commissioners wanted low-income south suburbs prioritized.

In the unforgiving year just past, we might all have lost our path if not for the helpers and the heroes.

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Candidate roy moore losing moore support after doubling down on the tax against his accusers. several establishment republicans calling on moore to step aside in that alabama race. nbcs von hillhard joining us from alabama. what is the latest reaction to the allegations against moore and potentially these new poll numbers? >> alex, just a week and a half ago that roy moore the republican senate candidate here in alabama was up on capitol hill in washington, d.c. with, meeting with these very rep...