Center for Poverty Solutions
A sudden loss gave him motivation to reshape his community
Kevon Williams does workforce and community work on his native West Side of Chicago. For Kevon Williams, community work started with profound loss, a desire to help on the West Side and a simple question: Why do so many people feel like…
“We are our own medicine:” Austin community groups take…
Clabe Johnson wants to instill a sense of community in the neighborhood’s young men. In…
More than 167,000 Chicagoans lived on $21 or less a day
About 17% of Chicagoans lived below the poverty line in 2024, with more than a third of them…
New bill could help Illinois’ housing gap with granny…
A measure in Springfield would expand permission to build accessory dwelling units to every…
Chicago Peace Initiative: Reducing violence with jobs
Gangs and prison often keep Chicago’s youth out of the workforce, but the Chicago Peace…
Healing poverty with advice, jobs, houses
Chicago’s Roseland community is solving crime and poverty through a formula developed by the Hope Center: mentors, jobs and a home. Since 2020, the Hope Center has helped address the root causes of poverty and crime in Roseland on…
Performers emerge from Chicago’s projects by way of…
Project out of the Projects helps aspiring Chicago musicians, event producers find their way…
Federal aid feeds over 1M Illinois families this…
Over 1 million Illinois families will put turkey on the table this Thanksgiving with the help…
Here’s why buying an Illinois home can be hard
Illinois home prices have jumped nearly 50% since 2018 while available housing hasn’t…
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