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Making Employment Connections Work
Making Employment Connections Work Growing up in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, Purnell could easily have gotten involved in gangs. In fact, the young man made a few bad choices a few...More >
Home Court Brings Community Together
Home Court Brings Community Together Creates Safety For A Local Playground On Friday nights this summer, the play lot at St. Louis and Carroll in East Garfield Park is being transformed. Like too......More >
COO Bill Curry Welcomed into LGC
Breakthrough COO Inducted Into Leadership Greater Chicago Bill Curry, Chief Operating Officer of Breakthrough Urban Ministries, was recently accepted into the 2010 Class of Leadership Greater Chicago. The......More >
Volunteer Trades In Blackberry
Volunteer Trades In His Blackberry Finds Hope At Breakthrough Like so many others, Aram has felt the pressure of unemployment. “It felt like a circus of producing resumes, sitting through interviews and waiting…lots of waiting,” says Aram. Finally, his stress hit an apex.......More >
Eliminating Isolation
Community Groups Help Eliminate Isolation One major goal for Breakthrough’s guests is to move from transitional housing into permanent housing. In other words, they want to move out of Breakthrough’s......More >
Sweet Success For Students
Experience Is Sweet Success For Students Every time people buy snacks or drinks from a vending......More >
Freeing Sandra
Freeing Sandra Outreach, RV Offer Support For The Long Haul At 40, Sandra continues her lifelong struggle to be on her own – but safe in......More >
Lamar's Network
Lamar’s Network Connections for a Lifetime This is the second installment of our focus on Breakthrough’s ...More >