In Chicago, homelessness is one of the biggest problems. According to the Chicago Coalition for the homeless, it is estimated that nearly 138,575 people were homeless for the course of the 2013-2014 school year, which is 19. CPS alone recorded 22,144 students, also an all-time high.

Ndash; nearly 800,000 individuals are food insecure, not knowing when or where their next meal will be. In the graph shown on the left,. The food insecurity rate gradually. Gets worse as we move closer. More than one in every ten people was unemployed in Cook County with an unemployment rate of 13.

You can help too! The Problem and The Solution. Welcome to our website on stray animal awareness in Chicago. Strays are a problem in our community. they carry diseases that can be passed between animals and humans. They can be issues for traffic and can cause road accidents. There have been reports of Strays attacking citizens,. Damaging property and polluting our environment. However, there are also some welfare concerns that some people have for stray animals such as, disease, hunger,.

Graffiti is the act of writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. It is commonly done by adolescents in groups or gangs.