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by CHRIS CASCARANO | Feb 17, 2012
Women who are fans of rockabilly and all things from the 50s put together hair, makeup and outfits from that era and step out in style.
by CHRIS CASCARANO | Jan 4, 2012
There are an estimated 25,000 homeless youth in Illinois, according to the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and nearly 40 percent of them have children. Amanda Novoa, 18, was once among them. Novoa gave birth to her second baby just after midnight on New Year’s day. She and her husband, Lamar West, have both experienced
by CHRIS CASCARANO | Dec 21, 2011
In the Fulton Market area, west of the Loop, a group of unemployed and often homeless men work to scrape together a bare-bones living selling discarded wooden pallet crates, which truckers use to load and transport freight. The pallets sell for between $1 and $3 a piece and the men spend almost every day scrounging
