After battling homelessness and strokes, Angel Clark and her at-home business are both flourishing

CHICAGO -- Angel Clark often awakes from her dreams and jumps into action to make new creations for her at-home business, Minesntheirs, which operates from the two-bedroom Edgewater neighborhood apartment she shares with her 19-year-old daughter.

But it wasn’t always like this, Clark said on a frigid Sunday afternoon in February. With no residue of bitterness in her cheery voice, Clark explained how, years before, she was homeless.

“No one would take me and my kids in,” said Clark, 48. “Even friends I had helped. No one. But the refusal ended up being one of the best things I had to go through.”