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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 ...