When The City Turns Cold: Homeless in Chicago

A multimedia project by Roosevelt University journalism students in the Convergence Newsroom course that takes an intimate look at Homelessness in Chicago, capturing the faces, voices and stories of those on the front lines.

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Homeless in Chicago

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This projects includes written stories, podcasts and other multimedia. To navigate this site, see links and descriptions below.

The Stories

From homeless shelters to organizations like Food Not Bombs, to the streets and abandoned buildings where some of the homeless seek shelter from the cold, to a mobile food pantry, to a place that provides dental care for the homeless, to Pantry University and Dignity Diner, a portrait of what happens when the city turns cold emerges. To read these stories and more, click on the headlines below:

Goldie’s Place: Giving some homeless a reason to smile

Interfaith House: Providing in-patient services to the homeless

Vets on the Street; Agencies seek to aid forgotten soldiers

Clinic on wheels:
Mobile health unit takes medical care to the street

A bed, a meal, a way back up;
Walls Memorial seeks to be the difference

Motivated to help the homeless:
Inspiration Corporation

Food Not bombs: One group’s aim to stamp out hunger

Cathedral Shelter provides a hand up

Pantry University:
Teaching skills for a new life

Saving a Home

PADS: A suburban hand to help the homeless

Pacific Garden Mission:
City’s oldest shelter still making all the difference

For women, a place of their own

Meals on wheels:
The mobile food pantry

Dignity in dining at one local soup kitchen

Fundraiser a cornerstone for one local shelter

Taking a holistic approach to healing:
Lincoln Park Community Shelter

Meeting the needs:
Northside Housing and Supportive Services

Shelter aims to be the breakthrough for Chicago homeless

The Night Ministry seeks to be light for those in the shadows

Streetwise vendor finds a way up from the streets

Saving women from the streets: Here’s HOW

Links to Resources on Homelessness and Hunger

Breakthrough Urban Ministries
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Chicago Tribune: Cardboard City...seek to raise awareness
Chicago Tribune: Study finds home lessen needs for emergency care
Feeding America
Goldie's Place
Greater Chicago Food Depository
National Coalition for the Homeless
Pacific Gardens Mission Chicago
PADS
Pantry University
Plan to end homlessness in Chicago?
Streetwise

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About the Project

Twelve student journalists, 16 weeks, one city. Thousands of people homeless in the Windy City alone. This spring, at Roosevelt University, where we embrace a mission of social justice, students in the capstone undergraduate journalism course, the convergence newsroom, set out to chronicle homelessness in the city of Chicago in a project entitled, “When the City Turns Cold: Homeless in Chicago.”

For more about this project, click here: City Turns Cold