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Hamilton House creates a new kind of family in Chicago’s South Shore community

September 17, 2018October 23, 2019 marthabayne foster care, Gerald Hamilton, South Shore

Since the mid-1970s, Gerald Hamilton, a retired homicide detective, has been a foster parent for over 100 kids and teenagers of different ethnicities and backgrounds, most of them young men. Some people assume that foster parents are in it for the money or don’t know how to deal with the often troubling behavior of the children they take in. Hamilton challenges these misconceptions by intentionally seeking out kids who need more support and treating them no differently than his biological children.

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Staying Power: Inside the Last Days of One of Chicago’s Few Remaining Cage Hotels

March 29, 2018October 23, 2019 marthabayne

By Sydney Boles A dark, wood-paneled hallway leads into the interior of the Wilson Men’s Hotel. An elderly man named

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Rogers Park Development Fuels Tensions over Gentrification

December 8, 2017October 23, 2019 marthabayne community benefits agreements, Community Law Project, Joe Moore, ONE Northside, Rogers Park, Target

Construction crews broke ground November 28 on a mixed-use development despite continued efforts by local community groups to obstruct it, or at least negotiate a better deal. The Rogers Park Community Benefits Coalition says the development, called the Concord at Sheridan, will pull traffic away from local businesses, funnel profits out of the neighborhood and displace Rogers Park residents by accelerating the gentrification that is already at work in the area.

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For a Bright Orange Tent: How one practical survival item caused the rise and fall of Chicago’s Tent City

December 7, 2017October 23, 2019 marthabayne Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, chicago homelessness, Cornerstone Community Center, James Cappleman, ONE Northside, Uptown Tent City

Residents of Uptown Tent City had two things that made them different from the city’s larger homeless population: They had bright orange tents, and they knew their rights. Those two things became their undoing.

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The Voices of Uptown Tent City

November 2, 2017October 23, 2019 marthabayne chicago homelessness, homelessness, tent city, Uptown

Uptown Tent City residents are having a hard time after losing their homes under Lake Shore Drive viaducts on the North Side of Chicago due to a six-month construction project for bridge repairs.

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After Homelessness, Insecurity Lingers: Vita finds her identity but searches for stability that’s more than an address

August 21, 2017October 23, 2019 marthabayne homelessness, Sydney Boles, trans femme, transgender, Vita Cleveland

Vita Cleveland, 28, is a black trans woman. Having experienced homelessness as a man before her transition and as a woman after, Vita noticed clear distinctions in how the world treated her.

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In a home but still homeless

June 29, 2017October 23, 2019 marthabayne Alexandria Johnson, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, homelessness, Julie Dworkin

Study shows more than 80 percent of homeless Chicagoans are living “doubled-up.”