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| Line at the Niles Township food pantry |
During my morning run yesterday--yes, my tendinitis appears to be healed--I saw a group queued up in front of the Niles Township food pantry in Skokie.
I've lived four blocks from the the pantry for eleven years--and I've never seen a line in front of the place. So I asked an elderly woman who had just left, "What's everyone lined up for?"
"Food," she exclaimed in a classic Chicago axe-cent. "But ya gotta register first!" Yes, that's why they were lined up. However, I believe the lady was incorrect about the registration part.
But still, yikes! Things are bad here. Between my home and the pantry I saw a Fannie Mae foreclosure house for sale during that run. There are now two of them within a block of me.
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| Fannie Mae foreclosure home, Skokie |
Hard times in Niles Township.
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