"An analysis by CCH Policy Director Julie Dworkin shows 88,923 Chicagoans were homeless in the course of the 2009-10 school year (through June 2010). This is 19.9 percent more than the 74,149 who were homeless in the prior, 2008-09 school year. "
-Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
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Installation inside The Art Institute of Chicago, February 16, 2011.
Thousands of people in Chicago sleep on the streets every night. Often they are treated as sub-human and ignored. The economic infrastructure would be sufficient to house and aid these people, were our national budget properly distributed.