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About StreetWise

Agency Mission To assist Chicago area men and women, who are facing homelessness, achieve personal stability by providing them with a combination of supportive social services and immediate access to gainful employment. The Vision   StreetWise will provide Chicagoans in need with, “a hand up, not a handout.” To this end, StreetWise will assure that,[...]

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Quincy Hunter: building brick by brick

StreetWise Vendor Quincy Hunter can be described as a very laid-back, fun-loving type of guy. But when he gets to business, Quincy is extremely driven and working hard to build his life back up brick by brick. “I came back to Chicago from Indiana and I was homeless. I was at the shelter – Father[...]

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World’s dictators more scared of tweets than opposing armies

In his keynote address to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents at New York’s Columbia University last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the growing power exercised by the world’s younger generation in an age of high- speed technology and the information superhighway. “To unleash the power of young people, we need to partner[...]

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StreetWise Feature: StreetWise Vendor Linda Carretero writes about her mom

I have always lived with my mom. I was raised mostly by my grandma, grandpa, and my mom. My mom and my grandpa worked hard to provide for us. My grandparents are both dead now and my daughter is still sad when she thinks about them. I got remarried in December. Last April we sat[...]

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Disability community mourns victim allegedly shot by mom

As part of a national day of mourning organized by the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and Not Dead Yet, Chicagoans gathered March 30 at Access Living, 115 W. Chicago Ave., in response to the alleged murder of an autistic man by his mother. Disabled people came together March 30 in cities across the U.S. to[...]

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Albany Park: Ethnically-, economically- and age-diverse

Albany Park is one of the most economically-, ethnically-, and age-diverse areas in Chicago, ranking fifth in a 2008 DePaul study. Here you’ll find Chicago’s “Koreatown,” and other immigrants from around the world: Mexicans, Filipinos, Ecuadorans, Indians, people from the Middle East, from the former Yugoslavia and Bosnia, including refugees. More than half the population[...]

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