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The Chicago Public Library and the Homeless

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Originally published in 2007. Tom Knoska steps out of the Pacific Garden Mission on State Street on a hot and windy June day holding a plastic CVS pharmacy bag and headed nowhere in particular. He walks with a cane and with each step his right leg sticks out slightly awkwardly. His white t-shirt and jeans are spotless and his hair and beard are neatly trimmed.
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How to Stop Unauthorized Use of Your Name and Image on the Internet

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The Internet has ushered in a time of limitless opportunity and boundless growth in every part of our daily lives. We can click on the app of our favorite news organization to get breaking news on our smartphones, play Scrabble with someone halfway around the world or be transported to the red barren landscape of Mars with one click of the mouse. Enter the blogosphere, as the world of blogs is called, and entries ranging from the highly informative to the cruel and untrue are waiting to be read.
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Is Cycling the New Way to Go?

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Originally published in 2007. Getting motorists to leave their cars in the driveway and to strap on a bicycle helmet instead requires the creation of a new culture that embraces the bicycle as a major mode of travel. The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Environmental Protection Agency, city planners and other groups assembled at Modeshift, an annual conference in Chicago, to take on the daunting task of developing ways to encourage the public to decrease their dependency on vehicles, to change their perception of cycling, and to share success stories of communities that have embraced the bicycle as a clean and economical.
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Chicago Residents Demand Clean Up Before 2016 Olympics In Chicago

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About five hundred south side residents gathered in Kennedy-King College’s Great Hall for a town hall meeting in April sponsored by Action Now, a grassroots organization, to demand that the city clean up neighborhoods that may showcase the 2016 Olympics if Chicago wins the bid for the event.
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Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown's Annual Domestic Violence and Child Support Summit a Provides Assistance to Families in Chicago

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Originally published in Streetwise in 2007. “Too many custodial parents are not getting the kind of support that is necessary for their children. At least 62% of the people that qualify for child support are not collecting child support, have never requested it or have not made arrangements. That means too that children are not living the kind of quality of life that they should live,” Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Dorothy Brown said. 
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