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In the course of reporting my previous story on the gap between wages and the cost of housing, I spent time following a case manager with the Southern…
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In Illinois, there are only 35 affordable housing units for every 100 families considered extremely low-income, according to Housing Action Illinois, a...
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An estimated 10,643 people in Illinois are homeless according to federal data. Many of those are working - but still can’t make ends meet.For the Stephens…
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Many communities in Illinois have rules that say renters can lose their housing if someone in the home is connected to a crime. City leaders who back...
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The Quad Cities are divided by the Mississippi River along the Illinois-Iowa border. They all took a big hit during the 1980’s farm crisis, and were...
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Affordable housing issues often get media attention when property prices soar due to spiking economic development or when property prices tumble due to...
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Last summer, Chantil was forced to leave the townhome she shared with her two daughters and her mother in Des Plaines. (We’re withholding Chantil’s last...
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Welcome to this edition of Southern Illinois Wonders! More than 200 years ago French-American naturalist and painter John James Audubon traveled through…
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Welcome to this edition of Southern Illinois Wonders! 150 years ago the United States remained embroiled in the civil war. To mark the sesquicentennial,…
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Welcome to this edition of Southern Illinois Wonders! Acclaimed novelist Laura Benedict is a southern Illinois based writer. Her latest novel, Bliss…