by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Nov 28, 2011
Dressed in black baggy jeans, a gray tank top and a Harley Davidson cap skewed backward, Juan Gallaher stood under a cool late-fall drizzle devouring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the Night Ministry’s homeless-youth-outreach van at Belmont Avenue
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Dec 12, 2011
Samantha Caballero cannot remember the last time she slept well. Some nights she nods off in a chair. She has slouched in the front seat of her brother’s station wagon or huddled between boxes in her mother’s storage unit. Sometimes
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Dec 30, 2011
Lamar West has lost parents twice in his life. The first time was when he was 4; the second was a month before his 18th birthday. The circumstances differed, but the outcomes did not. When West, 20, tries to remember
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
