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We are raising money to help Veterans and their Families that are in Need! Currently we are focused on a Navy family that is in dire straights! The husband is a Veteran who has just been released early from the Navy due to government budget cuts. The wife has just undergone hip and leg surgery and is currently disabled. They have two small children ages 1 and 3. They are currently in debt and have been living out of a hotel. They lost military housing a few weeks ago. Also their car has broken down. They are currently in Virginia. They were kicked out of the hotel and as of now they are literally on the sidewalk. They have no place to go, and they have no money. They need money so that they can travel back to Illinois where their families are! Please please help! Help a Navy Family get home. All donations will be used to help this family and many others like it!

I am a mother of two children. We live a day at a time. Its seems like no one wants to hire me. If anyone has a job for me I will take it. I live in the state of illinois. I am not asking for a certain amount. Anything will help. Thank you so much.

hello since i last visited someone halped me with my si tuat ion where i needed help paying for my meds and doctor's bills ove the holdiays much appreciated i am h owever st ill unemployed and planning to move soon i once lived ina ahelter here but my time was up in about 3 months i continue toseek a job iam a middleged woman 55 who needs help with a buscard for a week here i have asked to have various papers fi lled out but when i ge t better the health cneter stops working for me i am no member of gang teh lazy old micial social worker would not help me wi th my reduced fare permit i cna't walk far i have heart problem under control with medications i can work however i am not from here when the peoples health center got my medicla records from cook county they stopped helping i need a lit tle change or i have a paypal account until things improve i am an adult learner who is trying to SURVIVE i read online that many older workers are getting jobs i used tostay in an sro but state financing ran out in illinois i have a new eyeglass pr escrip tion that needs filling i only run in to difficulties here lately when i ask for minor help 15-25 dollars can anyone help me i used to suffer for CHF!I am in need of shoes also i have type 2 diabetes wk hich ialso treat with medicine once t hey at the health center on delmar blvd.)helped me use Xubex for important medicines once however i only tke basics i can use a little help and help with bus fare i go to churches to eat many .many meals their clohing is limited so i have very little if not sought by people who claim to be lceaning up an area that is already environmentally clean and hidden on a tree branch not in anyone's way i can get doanted items if i can get there i am hungry at times and am given t hing s formtime to time, ilove to work god bless youif you can help , my name is yslvia mccullough i get coorespondence at 1610 olive st., st.louis,mo 63103 i also have paypal, thanks for letting me ask, good nite

Hi, and thanks for reading my post. I am a mid-thirties guy doing my best to find a long term and stable job after a layoff. while that is obviously a priority, I am also trying to save enough money to attend a very close female friend's wedding in August.
I am in western Illinois, and my friend and her fiance live in eastern California, near Lake Tahoe. Since she relocated there 10 years ago with her then-husband, we have not been able to see each other (although we keep in frequent contact). She and her fiance delayed the wedding partially in hopes to give me enough time to save enough money to travel there and be part of the experience.
My hope is to fly out and spend a few days..preferably a week..but if it came down to it I would take Amtrak or Greyhound. Whatever it took to get there.
I would greatly appreciate any help you could give. This girl is like a sister to me, and having gotten to know her fiance through skype and the phone, he's a great guy as well. Thanks for your time and any donation you may give. God Bless

I don't really know where to start here...sitting up late... hoping for a miracle and ended up here. My sons father just passed away. I live in another state.. divorced for 5 years and moved to escape an abusive relationship after my children reached adulthood. They are still young adults and trying to make it on their own. One of my sons is about to lose his apartment and a storage unit with all his dads belongings...so I'm trying to find a way to be able to pay for his storage and move my son to Illinois to live with me. He is an emotional wreck just losing his father and now losing everything...I need to help but work 6 sometimes 7 days a week at a minimum wage job living paycheck to paycheck. My email is 00zephyr00@gmail.com

Hi my name is Dave and I'm disable my wife works really hard to support our three kids and myself I was a truck driver for over twenty years mostly doing contract work over the last three years I developed,CHF "Congestive Heart Failure" I was found eligible for SSDI up here in Illinois, but was denied assistance because my wife makes enough money to keep us out off the soup line I've only been married to her for six months and I only came to Illinois to marry the woman that I love so much and go back to Texas were I have the ability to work we are trying to make the move but my wife ex-husband the guy that left his wife and three kids wants to keep us here so we have to fight in court I'm trying my best to get a job and help her all I can, but its hard to keep a job when you stay sick most of the time we desperately need to make this move it would help us to better support our kids we could give them a better home and better school and most of all I could get a job to help my wife
please,please, Help with what every you can spear

I live in New Jersey and my boyfriend lives in Illinois. We are so close and have been dating for a really long time. I have been trying to see him for the summer but I had a family emergency and my money had to go towards that. I am looking for some money, anything at all, that I could use to go visit my boyfriend. I have not seen him in a long time and we need to see each other again. Him and I are going to get married someday and I really want to see him again. Please help make our dreams come true so we can see one another again! It is the best feeling in the world to be with him and I miss it so much!

The faculty and staff of Grace Montessori School is committed to serve the need of the child and his family using Maria Montessori’s philosophy and pedagogy as its backbone. Using the Montessori Method, we are devoted to help each child develop the foundation essential for a lifetime of creative learning, in a nurturing environment. Our program emphasizes spontaneous activity, peer-teaching, responsible freedom, sensory-motor preparation for intellectual growth, process not product orientation, non-competitive atmosphere, auto-education, and social development. We support and acknowledge the responsibility of parents to be the prime educators of their children and as co-educators we provide an excellent learning program for children.

GMS is the only Montessori school in Melrose Park, Illinois that is open all day. Located inside Cosmopolitan United Church, the school serves the immediate community with quality care and education since December of 2001.

Using the Montessori Method, GMS is committed to help each child develop the foundation essential for a lifetime of creative learning, in a nurturing environment.

Please help support the Grace Montessori School Classrooms additions project by going to:

http://www.gracems.com

or

Donate today at: http://gracems.chipin.com/support-grace

Thank You!

The faculty and staff of Grace Montessori School is committed to serve the need of the child and his family using Maria Montessori’s philosophy and pedagogy as its backbone. Using the Montessori Method, we are devoted to help each child develop the foundation essential for a lifetime of creative learning, in a nurturing environment. Our program emphasizes spontaneous activity, peer-teaching, responsible freedom, sensory-motor preparation for intellectual growth, process not product orientation, non-competitive atmosphere, auto-education, and social development. We support and acknowledge the responsibility of parents to be the prime educators of their children and as co-educators we provide an excellent learning program for children.

GMS is the only Montessori school in Melrose Park, Illinois that is open all day. Located inside Cosmopolitan United Church, the school serves the immediate community with quality care and education since December of 2001.

Using the Montessori Method, GMS is committed to help each child develop the foundation essential for a lifetime of creative learning, in a nurturing environment.

Please help support the Grace Montessori School Classrooms additions project by going to:

http://www.gracems.com

or

Donate today at: http://gracems.chipin.com/support-grace

Thank You!

The faculty and staff of Grace Montessori School is committed to serve the need of the child and his family using Maria Montessori’s philosophy and pedagogy as its backbone. Using the Montessori Method, we are devoted to help each child develop the foundation essential for a lifetime of creative learning, in a nurturing environment. Our program emphasizes spontaneous activity, peer-teaching, responsible freedom, sensory-motor preparation for intellectual growth, process not product orientation, non-competitive atmosphere, auto-education, and social development. We support and acknowledge the responsibility of parents to be the prime educators of their children and as co-educators we provide an excellent learning program for children.

GMS is the only Montessori school in Melrose Park, Illinois that is open all day. Located inside Cosmopolitan United Church, the school serves the immediate community with quality care and education since December of 2001.

Using the Montessori Method, GMS is committed to help each child develop the foundation essential for a lifetime of creative learning, in a nurturing environment.

Please help support the Grace Montessori School Classrooms additions project by going to:

http://www.gracems.com

or

Donate today at: http://gracems.chipin.com/support-grace

Thank You!

My husband is looking for work in orlando fl. He owned his own flooring buisness in illinois for 4 years but due to economy decided to close buisness. He also did do security work for chicago theatre and celebrities. He is currently going to get his D card. He is very hand too does local work for a lanlord for small pay. Anyone that thinks they need that please email us.

My name is Mark. I just recently earned my degree from university of illinois. However, due to tough times I have trouble paying my bills, specially Illinois where I own
$827,24. As result, they are withholding my diploma for about a year now. I lost my mother back in 2007 due to a massive stroke. My parents have been divorced for years and my father currenly has a new family. Forgot about me.
I do work but most of my funds goes to my
rent and food. I know there is hope but I just need to get
over this hump. Any donation will be helpful, we all go through a time where we need help. If I get this bill paid,
I can receive my diploma and which i respectfully earned.
If you choose to donate god bless.

They are trying to take our child we have been fighting them sense our child was born we are good parents and i sent her every dime i had to get her out of hellinois the states worst corrupted place in america anything anyone can do please send whatever you can to richard sievert 8911 skokomish way Olympia Washington state 98516-5952 My x wife will forward whatever you give to us.
Please find it in your hearts to help us stay outside the status quo so that we do not need to have well-fair help us if they do gues what we loose our child america is faced with a horrible agency called cps and they lie and fabricate things to sell babies for 25000 a child and Illinois is the worst place on earth to be on well-fair if you are your in danger I personally wish cps was closed because for every child they help they sell 50 to anyone with money just to support this evil empire i pray you help us this is real i tried begging on the street but our area is so meek i feel that i will be questioned and we will loos our son. 'Please help us stay away from the D.C.F.S. Devils and out of the spotlight of our evil us system
amen! p.s.
You can address the enveloper to my user name thanks and gods speed! n blessings to all that donate and help others I personally wish our gov would close our banking cartel they have turned our great country america into it's own resident evil! I sent her away from that state on a train and i drove and met her we are now together but without funds i fear our system will take our child thanks again for whatever you do for the poor I believe we are nearing the end of America and soon we will all be under the guise of the new world order. 'Where the devil is behind it all!

I'm a 24 year old female currently living in a friend's dorm room. His lease ends in May, and that will be the day I become homeless. I've put in job applications everywhere and nobody's gotten back to me, and I still have a single bill that I've yet to pay off... the time is ticking, and I couldn't think of anything else to do.

I'm pretty sure nobody reads these things, but this is my last shot at doing something for myself and getting out of the rut that will inevitably leave me homeless in one month. Here's a story that shows just how terrible gaming addictions can become and how much harder it is to dig yourself out of a hole that only deepens by the day with no hope of escape.

In 2007, I began playing World of Warcraft on my crappy laptop (which at the time had been a great piece of machinery). It started out innocently enough. I had real life friends who played the game and I'd wanted to know what it was all about so I bought and installed it. I was instantly hooked in the world, and made some friends that I talk with even to this day. I went through several guilds before I finally found the one I thought I would enjoy. I began spending endless amounts of time in the game, engrossing myself in it. I quit all of my outside activities and all of my hobbies revolved around getting in the game and playing it until the wee hours of the morning. I would come to work sleepy and dislike everyone around me. After the first two years I fell into an odd depression that could only be quelled by, what I thought, was WoW. By the time 2010 rolled around I had been living in four different places IRL, bumming from one place to the other in order to have more game time. I hadn't had a job, I hadn't even looked for one.

Eventually, in September of 2010, I'd had enough. While I want to blame the game for everything wrong I've done in my life, I can only blame myself for letting it get so bad. I could have shut it off at any time, but I didn't. I could have listened to everyone who told me what I was turning into, but I hadn't. My parents had driven from Illinois to Cleveland, Ohio to bring me back home. It was the opening for a new beginning that I thought would get me back on the path of redemption... but it was only the start of a larger nightmare. Between an internet addiction and an unquenchable withdraw from a lack of a game I could no longer play for fear of losing the roof over my head, I managed to find a job at a local gas station.. but that wasn't enough for my parents. They held my misgivings over my head constantly and for every one thing I did right, twenty things were wrong. After I forgot to do the dishes for the fourth time that month, my internet connection had been taken away.

Instead of taking this as a queue to get away and start my life anew, I fell deeper into depression. Withdraw took over and I used the library computers for an hour or two a day before I went to work to keep in touch with the friends I'd been cut off from. Eventually I'd put enough money together to get my own internet connection and had told my father that the Comcast guys were going to come over to install it. He'd been fine with it though knew my mother would throw a fit. A week later, the internet guys installed my box and left. The internet worked for an hour then shot out. When I told my father that the guys had to come back to re-install whatever they had forgotten to do, he'd thrown a fit about people "drilling holes in his wall, and walking into HIS home", and refused to acknowledge that I'd ever had the conversation with him in the first place. This sent me into a panic attack that ended in a night of hospitalization.

While I was in the hospital I had told the doctor while in tears that I didn't wish to see my parents while I was being treated because they were the reason I was in the situation I was in. While they had not physically harmed me, I was in no mental state to deal with their accusations anymore (which my father had yelled and argued with me the entire way to the hospital already). When they'd finally discharged me, I had found out that I had been abandoned at the hospital with no way home; I'd called a good friend to take me home.

The next day, I was told via text that I was no longer welcome in my parents' home.

While trying with everything I could not to lose my mind for a second time, I made as many phone calls as I could. Nobody could help me. Finally, my sister had offered me a place to stay in her friends' dorm room for a day or two just to make sure that I wasn't left on the street. As if by an act of God, an old friend from high school came into my life and offered me a place at his dorm room until I was able to get back on my feet. I now live two hours away from where "home" used to be, and am typing from my computer here. I had to leave the only stable job I'd had in 2 years to come here and getting back on my feet is proving harder than I could've ever imagined. I've had job interviews with no luck and I don't have enough money to put a down payment on an apartment in the area. If I don't find a solution by May 1st, I -will- be homeless.

I wish I could blame everything I've done on my gaming, and the internet, but as said before, it was my own stupidity that has landed me in this situation. Mental addictions are harder to break than physical ones and even now, 6 months after quitting World of Warcraft, every part of me still wants to go back to it, to get back the comfort of living in another world that it used to give me. The only thing that seems to break the feeling and keep it down is a cigarette; cheapest pack available, mind you. The point I'm trying to make is that gaming addictions can be dangerous, all consuming, and deadly. Someday I may write a paper on all the effects of letting yourself succumb to the beautiful world of anonymity and pixels... but here isn't the place to do that.

This is my last ditch effort to get out of the hole I've dug myself into. Today I offer you my heart and soul, and everything I have left that (Thank God) hasn't disintegrated along with everything else I used to be good at.

Thanks for reading. Hope you guys have a fantastic rest of your week.

I don't know where to start with this mess. I lost my job of 7 years as an Operations Manager February 2009 along with all the benefits, I never received unemployment from the State of Illinois because my former out of state employer never paid their tax obligations to Illinois. March 2009 my wife suffered a brain aneurysm and was hospitalized for 15 days but survived. She then lost her job April 2009. May 2009 the coil that they put on the aneurysm shifted and she had to have brain surgery all over again. Her medical bills exceed $500,000 of which we were responsible for $25,000 thanks to insurance. The little money she got from unemployment basically kept us living and able to pay for basic living expenses and utilities. We have been unable to make a mortgage payment since February 2010, we have done everything we can to survive this far. Our credit is now ruined, 401k is long gone and our home is in foreclosure. As of the date of this post we owe Chase Mortgage $16,000 plus Attorney fees to get the house out of foreclosure. Our next court date is June 15, 2011 at the Will County IL court house and if the mortgage is not paid we will be ordered to be out by July 15th, 2011. We are scared and have nobody to turn to. We have turned to so many agencies for help and we hear the same thing over and over. We go to the local food pantry twice a month and live off of whatever they give us. We have a 13 year old daughter and 3 dogs who are also like our children. We have a 10 year old and 13 year old car and have absolutely no where to turn for assistance. We spend 40 hours a week searching for jobs and are trying to stay positive but everything looks so grim. We have been through two loan modifications with Chase Mortgage and denied because we are both unemployed. If we can get the house caught up on mortgage payments this will buy us some more time until one of us gets a job, otherwise we will be living in our car this summer with no where to go.

We need almost $20,000 by June 15th, 2011 to get back on track with our mortgage. We really don't know how much more we can stand. Our lives have seriously taken a turn for the worse in the past two years. We have never needed to ask anyone for assistance and have always provided for ourselves. We are good people who just can't catch a break.

Please find it in your heart to help my family and I. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. Please even if you can only donate a dollar, anything is better then nothing at all. I will be happy to provide you with all the proof you need if you don't believe our horrible situation. Thank you and God Bless!!!

Please email me @ pleasehelpmein2011@gmail.com

I'm a father of three kids, two daughters 14 and 11 and a son 9. I have my kids 99% of the time. I work a full time job and come home and take care of my kids. It takes alot to raise three kids but I wouldn't change the fact that I have them all the time. I'm single and have been for three years and not in any rush to move someone in for money. I'm not looking to get rich or have a massive donation, but I dont have a reliable car and can't afford to have it nickle and dime me to death. I would like to get a car that is a little more reliable but my credit is bad due to my medical bills(I have asthma and was in Icu for two weeks with no insurance)I have checked places and they want a big down payment so anything would help. Thanks Illinois

My husband,3 children,& I moved from Illinois to Arkansas,last August< to give the kids a more wholesome& better life. We made a HUGE MISTAKE!! My husband is disabled and I am starting to get some pretty serious medical problems myself. We are on Social Security and Arkansas does not have state medical for adults! So we need to get back up north to Illinois as soon as possible. We haven't been able to save a penny while we've been here. So we really need some financial assistance!!! Please HELP US! jackiethill73

Hello. I am currentky a college student in Illinois and I am having trouble coming up with money for tuition. I was suppose to attend classes this spring but due to financial difficulties I was unable to come up with the money in time. Every bit helps, as I am trying to save up to hopefully take some classes this summer, or fall at the latest. Other ways I am trying to make money are working part time, and selling knitted clothes that i hand knit. I make very little at my job and the hours are limited and so far I have not sold any knittings. Thank you for your time.

My half-brother's ex-wife and our three nieces and nephew moved from Georgia to Illinois to better their lives. They stayed with my family of five until they rented a house. Her breast cancer came back, and moved back in on Jan 1 of 2010. My wife took care of her 24/7 until she had to go to a nursing home. She was there less than a month and passed away in May of 2010. My nieces and nephew's father helped very little during that time and did NOT want the kids with him. We took the two oldest ones, and the two younger ones went to the youth pastor's family.

We are struggling to pay all of our bills, even though the two oldest ones have since decided to go to their father's house in Wisconsin. We did what we did because we love them, and it was the right thing to do. Please help, and if not anything else please pray for us. Thank you.

I really need help & fast. I don't know what else to do. My stepfather has passed & I need to make it to Illinois by Saturday. I have most of the money I need for my bus ticket but I still need 17.53 & I have no options left for more money. I've sold so much of my belongings & only gotten very little for them. I am currently in Alabama where I am taking care of my grandmother. I was very close to my stepfather & I really need to be there for his wake & his funeral or I will never forgive myself. Please, help if you can!!! It will be greatly appreciated, more than you know!!

Hello,

I just moved and despite my great resume and charming demeanor I have not found a job yet. I do substitute at a daycare when needed; unfortunately they have not needed me this month. I am down to (literally) my last $2 in nickles and dimes which I'll spend on a day pass for the bus (for interviews). I have about a half jar of peanut butter and two packets of ramen left...which I'm still not sure if it even qualifies as food!

Rent is due, other bills are due (I had to beg my cell phone service carrier for an extension) my checking account is overdrawn and just keeps on racking up fees, which is lovely. Just when I'm extra discouraged, my grandfather (who has been terminally ill for some time now) is on his last leg in the hospital. Of course, he lives in Illinois with most of my family, and I just moved to Austin, Texas and cannot afford to visit. Don't think I haven't applied to do everything short of prostitution. Ask my parents? If only it were that simple. Since their farm went under, I'd feel horrible even asking them for change for the toll!

Please, please, please help a girl out. I promise I will do the same when I am back on my feet. What goes around comes around, that's about all I have faith in at this point.

Thank You.

xo

Hello,

I just moved and despite my great resume and charming demeanor I have not found a job yet. I do substitute at a daycare when needed; unfortunately they have not needed me this month. Rent is due, other bills are due (I had to beg my cell phone service carrier for an extension) my checking account is overdrawn (and just keeps on racking up fees..ugh) and I just when I'm extra discouraged, my grandfather (who has been terminally ill for some time now) is on his last leg in the hospital. Of course, he lives in Illinois with most of my family, and I just moved to Austin, Texas and cannot afford to visit. Don't think I haven't applied to do everything short of prostitution. Ask my parents? If only it were that simple. Since their farm went under, I'd feel horrible even asking them for change for the toll!

Please, please, please help a girl out. I promise I will do the same when I am back on my feet. What goes around comes around, that's about all I have faith in at this point.

Thank You.

xo