By Steve Rhodes
“Three people in Cook County have died due to cold exposure since mid-November, including a 62-year-old man found in a vehicle Tuesday morning in the Austin neighborhood,” the Sun-Times reports.
“With temperatures not expected to eclipse the mid-teens until after New Year’s Day, Chicago’s homeless shelters have become packed with people looking for a respite from the extreme conditions.
“It’s life and death out there,” said Stephen Welch, director of development at the Pacific Garden Mission in Pilsen. “I talked to a couple of guys who thought they were going to die today. They could barely move.”
From the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless’s Twitter feed:
Helped by a family housing program advocated by the @ChiHomeWorks campaign, the Wards will no longer be homeless: https://t.co/LXtvjTFSp0 pic.twitter.com/GhlMG2hLCG
— CCH Chicago (@ChiHomeless) December 27, 2017
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“The way to end homelessness is hardly to arrest people, keep them in prison for a time and then kick them out on the street again. That’s a costly, vicious cycle. What we’re doing is making it worse”–UN special rapporteur Philip Alston https://t.co/Bfua7Oz9Fd
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) December 27, 2017
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Chicago homeless spend night in bone-chilling cold https://t.co/nMR7vM1wYF
— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) December 27, 2017
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A Chicago couple who each spent time living on the streets as teens now work together to feed the homeless. https://t.co/rsNWQNeIwy pic.twitter.com/faPxEXXRwZ
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) December 22, 2017
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@Chicago_Reader‘s Worst of Chicago 2017: “Mistreatment of the homeless,” citing @WBEZ Odette Yousef’s report on Chicago police commonly confiscating and throwing away homeless people’s tents
https://t.co/LzScIT6KVK— CCH Chicago (@ChiHomeless) December 21, 2017
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New on the Beachwood today . . .
The World’s Greatest College Football Report Fourth Down Stupidity Index/Bowl Preview Part 5 Featuring Manute Bol And the 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood
Featuring the Northern Illinois Huskies, the Boston College Eagles and the Alamo Bowl in the Alamodome at the Alamo.
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Vikings Film Room: The Bears’ Offense
Mitch Trubisky’s growing pains and shitty passing personnel vs. Jordan Howard’s proficiency in the zone running game.
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Chicago Song/Stu Larsen & Natsuki Karai.
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BeachBook
The Real Lucy Parsons.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
A better headline, taken from the story: Twitter Sided With The Nazis https://t.co/gkiPh7aBER
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 28, 2017
Why is it so hard for Twitter and Facebook to get it right? It must be super profitable for them not to.
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Killings in New York Fall to a Record Low as Crime Rate Dives Over All https://t.co/Hf6DC3VFfk
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 28, 2017
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Reminder to the firefighters who just heard Trump saying he broke a record on legislation passed in first year: He’s in last place among the ten most recent presidents. https://t.co/jrA8s94fk8
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) December 27, 2017
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— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 27, 2017
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WHY? #AskTomWhy
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 28, 2017
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Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town. It might be at the 7-11 or the high school or maybe even the jail! #ThisSongNeededAnEditor
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 28, 2017
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“Learned to hate Jews in that small town/voted for Trump in that same small town” … John Cougar Mellentrump
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 28, 2017
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Jimmy Butler hits huge clutch shot in OT, yells “HE CANT F**K WIT ME” at Nuggets 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/e0Voxo4Pup
— R❄️b Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) December 28, 2017
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Retronculous.
Posted on December 28, 2017