Hidden Poverty in Illinois

Kuni Takahashi

Chicago Tribune

Cleo Barney, 22, boils sausages for dinner at his apartment for disabled people in Waukegan, IL on July 17, 2007. Barney, who was clubbed in the base of the skull with a baseball ball on the street and paralyzed, tries to survive on $450 disability check he receives per month from the government.

Kuni Takahashi, "Hidden Poverty in Illinois," in POYi Archive, Item #41487, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/41487 (accessed May 6, 2025).