News & Events

Obama Administration Unveils National Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness Tuesday, June 22, 2010.

Cabinet members and Administration officials from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness deliver plan to finish the job of ending veteran and chronic homelessness by 2015 and among families, youth and children by 2020.

Everything started to fall apart for Kenith Price after his wife died in October.

They'd been separated for a while, he said, but he was still spending time with her. Then she died, and Price found himself depressed and alone.

And suddenly, he was also homeless.

The Berwyn Public Library has been buying bus passes for patrons who — after being told to leave the library at the end of the day — have no where else to go.

Feb. 27, we honored the generous partners, donors and volunteers (1,000 of them!) who make it possible for West Suburban PADS to give hope and refuge to those who are homeless in our community.

Crowded and underfunded, suburban shelters turned away an increasing number of homeless last year and already have done it this year...

PADS - a Maywood-based homeless help organization that serves Oak Park and several other communities - held an open house last week to show off its expanded spaces, which are located at 1851 S. 9th Ave. in Maywood.