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|  | Harlem unveils supportive housing for LGBTQ+ youths, young adults 2023-10-25
- On Oct. 24, NYC government officials and nonprofit organization leaders held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a housing development in Harlem with services for homeless LGBTQ+ youth and young adults between the ages ...
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| | Quigley responds to GOP attacks on LGBTQ+ projects 2023-07-19
- U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Illinois)—ranking member of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations Subcommittee, and a staunch LGBTQ+ ally—and fellow Reps. ...
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| | One Roof Chicago hosts launch event 2023-05-17
- One Roof Chicago, an LGBTQ+ centered community for elders and youth, held their public kickoff event May 16 at the Hinshaw and Culbertson law firm. The brainchild of Pamela Calvert, One Roof seeks to build a ...
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| | Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, Chicago Fire FC, CHA break ground on new training facility 2023-04-25
--From a press release - CHICAGO — Today, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, Chicago Fire FC Owner and Chairman Joe Mansueto, Alderman Jason Ervin (28th Ward), Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) CEO Tracey Scott, and Mary Baggett ...
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| | One Roof Chicago LGBTQ+ centered intergenerational community in planning stages, announces new executive director 2023-04-23
- When One Roof Chicago (ORC) founder Pamela Calvert, a then-newcomer to Chicago, was researching senior living options for her wife and herself, both elder orphans with no close family ties in the area, she was looking ...
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| | Center on Halsted hosts health resource event for LGBTQ+ seniors 2022-11-11
- Center on Halsted hosted How to Plan for your Changing Health Needs, a Senior Citizen Resource Fair with a particular focus for members of the LGBTQ community on Nov. 8. A host of representatives from medical, housing ...
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| | Report: Black Chicagoans' gap in life expectancy vs. non-Blacks is growing 2022-09-10
- A report stated that Black Chicagoans are expected to live more than nine fewer years than non-Black residents—and that gap in life expectancy is only growing, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago Department of Public ...
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| | Philadelphia AIDS and housing activist Michael Hinson Jr. dies at 55 2022-09-04
- Michael Hinson Jr.—a longtime AIDS and housing activist, and leader in Philadelphia's Black LGBTQ+ community—died Aug. 27 of an undisclosed cause at age 55, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. An obituary in the Philadelphia Gay News stated ...
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| | Staffers, older LGBTQ+ residents establish ties at The Admiral at The Lake 2022-08-02
- Before Ken Irvine moved to the senior living community The Admiral at The Lake, he was an expert at maneuvering conversations so people wouldn't find out he was gay. ...
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| | Cook County treasurer's report: Redlining has led to cities' Black exoduses 2022-07-19
- A new Cook County treasurer's office study, "Maps of Inequality: From Redlining to Urban Decay and the Black Exodus" details how federal government-sanctioned housing discrimination from the 1940s brought about urban decay and the ensuing exodus ...
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| | Actor Ezra Miller supposedly housing people at firearm-filled farm 2022-06-24
- Non-binary actor Ezra Miller is allegedly housing a young mother and her three small children at a Vermont farm, which is allegedly littered with firearms, ammunition and marijuana, according to a Page Six item that cited ...
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| | DCFS enhances training for foster parents, staff; expands resources, housing options for LGBTQI+ youth 2022-06-14
-- From a press release - Illinois DCFS enhances training for foster parents and staff, expands resources and housing options to support LGBTQI+ youth in care during Pride Month CHICAGO — June is Pride Month and the Illinois Department of Children and ...
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| | Pritzker signs measure protecting Illinoisans with disabilities in housing, state government 2022-05-23
-- From a press release - Chicago— Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed HB2775 and SB180 into law today, expanding protections for Illinoisans with disabilities in state government and housing. HB2775 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act ...
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| | Michigan Supreme Court hears LGBTQ-discrimination case 2022-03-03
- On March 2, the Michigan Supreme Court heard a case to decide if the state's civil-rights law offers protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people in in employment, housing, education and public accommodations, Michigan Radio reported. Attorneys ...
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| | Simmons introduces measure for statewide senior residents' council 2022-02-26
-- From a press release - SPRINGFIELD—In an effort to support seniors and provide them with greater access to the resources they rely on, Illinois state Sen. Mike Simmons (D-Chicago) initiated a measure that will create the Senior Housing Residents' Advisory Counc ...
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