Over dinner, Chicago residents connect with homeless
CHICAGO - At a trendy restaurant in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, diners sat at a table near the front window and chatted casually over drinks.
To someone looking in from the busy stretch of Broadway, the dinner party looked like any other group of friends grabbing a bite after work.
But these unlikely dinner companions - a homeless man, a woman getting by with the support of a LINK card and a housing subsidy, and working professionals from Lincoln Park, the Gold Coast and the West Loop neighborhoods - were trying to do something they say doesn't happen enough.
The group is part of a new initiative called Dinners for Humanity, which pairs Chicago
