Volunteers from right, Beth Hand, Nikita Brown, and Stephanie Drop, get instructions from leader Carl Keene at the Cornerstone transitional living home in Lisle before they go out to do a survey of the homeless in Bolingbrook on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Every two years, the county does a count of the people living on the streets and least a half-dozen agencies and organizations aid in collecting the data, going to places like parks and under bridges where they know homeless people hang out. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Volunteers from right, Beth Hand, Nikita Brown, and Stephanie Drop, get instructions from leader Carl Keene at the Cornerstone transitional living home in Lisle before they go out to do a survey of the homeless in Bolingbrook on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Every two years, the county does a count of the people living on the streets and least a half-dozen agencies and organizations aid in collecting the data, going to places like parks and under bridges where they know homeless people hang out. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Leader Carl Keene hands out donated backpacks to the volunteers at the Cornerstone transitional living home in Lisle before they go out to do a survey of the homeless in Bolingbrook on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Every two years, the county does a count of the people living on the streets and least a half-dozen agencies and organizations aid in collecting the data, going to places like parks and under bridges where they know homeless people hang out. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Even when the mercury dips well below the freezing mark, there are people who don’t, or can’t, come inside. Some of them slept here and there in DuPage County sites amid flurries whipped by Wednesday night’s biting winds, as a fleet of volunteers fanned out …
