This was the lead editorial in Sunday's (Dec. 28) Chicago Sun-Times. Well put!

Quit whining, Chicago -- and start shoveling.

It's not popular to say, but enough is enough.

This page has been inundated with letters from Chicagoans outraged that the city has cut back on plowing and salting side streets this winter.

We understand your anger -- we've gotten stuck in the snow too. But cursing out Mayor Daley isn't going to help.

CCH joins housing activists in mourning the death of Beauty Turner.

Ms. Turner, 51, was an editor and writer of the free public housing newspaper, Residents Journal.

Ms. Turner was among the Journal staff honored two years ago with a Studs Terkel Award from the Community Media Workshop.

She also created and led the acclaimed Ghetto Bus Tours through the remnants of Chicago's public housing system.

CCH Policy Director Julie Dworkin was featured in a segment on
homelessness and the economy last night on WTTW's Chicago Tonight.

View the clip here.

Deborah Harrington, president of the Woods Fund of Chicago and a
board member of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, has published a
letter to the editor in the Dec. 11 issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Woods
Fund of Chicago has been a long-time funder of CCH's community
organizing of people experiencing homelessness.

Phil Kadner, a columnist for the Daily Southtown, launched his new monthly column for the Chicago Sun-Times by profiling 2008 CCH scholarship winner Crystal Montanez.

In his column, Kadner discusses the Chicago Public Schools' new data on
unaccompanied homeless youth--kids and teens who are living on their
own without family or adult supervision. CPS has identified 2,096
unaccompanied homeless youth currently enrolled in the school system.

Well said! Read Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin's Dec. 7 column on the Sun-Times website here, or check it out below.

Bad times are a good time to give more

December 7, 2008

Hat's off -- make that hats on! -- to the impressive generosity of the retail folks at Zumiez, Inc.

For a 3rd straight year, the Zumiez Foundation shipped us 44 boxes of
winter jackets, hoodys, beanies, gloves, and socks, and 10 bales of
blankets – 2,200 lbs. of warmth just when Chicagoans need it!

The Zumiez bounty arrived just before Thanksgiving, and the CCH
organizing staff has already distributed outerwear to more than 100
people.

Mike Doyle has published an opinion piece on a set of new Chicago
Transit Authority signs, posted at some El rail terminals. The signs
indicate "Continuous riding of trains prohibited"--targeting homeless
people who ride the El seeking shelter. Read the full article here.

CCH wants to recognize the generosity of the Lincoln Park branch of
Baird & Warner. Through the Baird & Warner Good Will
Network program, the Lincoln Park branch raised $4,256 this fall to
help CCH in its efforts to prevent and end homelessness.

In the 1990s, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless launched Growing Home, Inc., under the direction of our late founder and long-time director, Les Brown.

So we're looking forward to watching this week's airing of CBS Sunday
Morning (8 a.m., Nov. 23), as it profiles urban farm projects,
including Growing Home.

Since 2002, Growing Home has offered job training for homeless and
low-wage adults in Chicago through a social enterprise based on organic
agriculture.