John Edwards in Chicago; Will Keynote @ Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

John Edwards in Chicago; Will Keynote Chicago Coalition for the Homeless' 25th Anniversary

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=56269

11/6/2005 8:00:00 AM

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Valerie Denney, 312-408-2580 ext. 11 or 312-666-1963

News Advisory:

WHAT: U.S. Senator and former vice presidential candidate John Edwards will keynote the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) 25th anniversary event.

WHERE: Hotel Allegro, 171 W. Randolph St

WHEN: Sunday, November 6, 2005

Media Availability: 2:45 p.m., Steppenwolf A, 3rd floor

Speech: 3:30 p.m., Walnut Room, 2nd floor

WHY: Edwards has been touring college campuses this fall to talk about poverty in America, calling poverty "the great moral issue facing America today." Edwards founded and now directs the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The Coalition was founded in 1980 when local social workers started noticing a growing number of homeless people at Chicago's airport, bus and train stations. Prior to that time, homeless people on the streets were not a common phenomenon.

A new 25-year status report, Far From Home, was released by the Coalition on Friday, November 4. The report showed that the problem of homelessness in Chicago has gotten significantly worse and continues to grow.

http://www.usnewswire.com/

[Erika]

1. Go John!

There are two Americas.

[Catchawave]

2. Oh Yeah, he still "walks the talk"......

I.am.inspired.

[DemDogs]

3. The only candidate who STANDS for something

We need a candidate who stands for something other than themselves. Man, it has been a while. Gore, who stood for environmental sanity, never talked about it in his campaign. With Edwards there is a guy who talks about what he stands for, doesn't waffle on that no matter whether the press thinks it is important this minute or not, and who actually tries to do something about it.

Really, you know what Edwards stands for. What about some of the others? Anyone know what Hillary or Kerry or Warner or Richardson etc. stand for?