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In a chilling report, Chi-Town Daily News found a loophole that allows some of the city’s mentally ill population to live in unlicensed group homes. This discovery has led state legislators to push for eliminating the loophole and adding more regulation and oversight for these types of homes which claim to provide services for the mentally and physically disabled. State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Woodstock) said he wanted Gov. Pat Quinn to take steps necessary to ending the loophole, Chi-Town Daily reported.

According to a story in the Huffington Post, the seemingly random home burglary in California of Republican Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon March 4 may have some Chicago ties - and some political ones as well.

The CTA is creating a stink with some with new signs that are aimed at "continuous riders" that critics say are aimed at the city's homeless. The signs have gone up recently and some, like Chicago Carless' Mike Doyle, suggest the signs are aimed at curbing the number of homeless people who take to the warm train cars during Chicago's harsh winters.

Any regular ‘L’ rider can attest to the wave of homeless Chicagoans who take to the warm interiors of CTA rail cars during the city’s brutal winter months. Although generally a benign presence in the system, their downtrodden visual appearance–and in many cases odor–earns them the ire of many fellow, more fortunate passengers.

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