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ABC7, Chicago-A story the city won't discuss: Homeless population explosion
By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff
Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:33PM
CHICAGO (WLS) --
The new face of homelessness is families. An estimated 140,000 homeless people live in the city including thousands of public school students in shelters, in tents, in parks or just in whatever place they can find across Chicago.
For one month, the I-Team asked city officials to appear in this report and discuss what you are about to see. They said no.
Kaleyah Wesley, 16, her mother and siblings spent two years living in a Rogers Park shelter.
"It was really tough," Kaleyah says. "It was really heartbreaking."
Thousands of others live in small tent villages, spanning the city from in the shadow of North Lake Shore Drive to one on Columbus Drive near downtown. Still others sleep on park benches and on the banks of the Chicago River.
Read more @ http://abc7chicago.com/news/chicagos-new-face-of-homelessness-/894464/