Housing

An encampment for unhoused individuals at North Clinton Street and North Milwaukee Avenue in the West Loop is seen in this photo, Sunday Dec. 17, 2023. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

City Hall

Chicago’s homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants

The city’s annual point-in-time count showed nearly 19,000 people were unhoused on a single night in January.

By Tessa Weinberg

Cook County

Evanston’s reparations program violates equal protection in U.S. Constitution, lawsuit claims