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| Gene Twardy is reflected in a mirror in his apartment along West 67th Street in Chicago, IL on Monday January 16, 2012. The 85-year-old WWII vet is forced to beg on the streets to make ends meet at the ends of the month when funds get tight. |
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| Gene Twardy holds some dirty laundry in his apartment along West 67th Street in Chicago, IL on Monday January 16, 2012. The 85-year-old WWII vet is forced to beg on the streets to make ends meet at the ends of the month when funds get tight. He uses the tub to wash his clothes when the weather is to nasty to go out to a laundromat. |
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| Gene Twardy stands near his apartment along West 67th Street in Chicago, IL on Monday January 16, 2012. The 85-year-old WWII vet is forced to beg on the streets to make ends meet at the ends of the month when funds get tight. |
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| Gene Twardy cries and pauses for a moment while talking about his life at the Giordono's Restaurant at 63rd Street and Cicero Avenue in Chicago, IL on Monday January 16, 2012. The 85-year-old WWII vet is forced to beg on the streets to make ends meet at the ends of the month when funds get tight. |
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| Mona Purdy, founder of Share Your Soles nonprofit, is seen through broken window panes in the door of her apartment at 6912 W. 111th Place after a fire gutted it in Worth, IL on Tuesday January 31, 2012. |
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| Glen Malone, from American Legion Post 241 looks at a mirror in the new veterans home owned by Morningstar Mission at 16 Melchoir Place in Joliet, IL on Tuesday February 21, 2012. |
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| Marcy Ioveno sits with dogs from her apartment building at 8500 W. 95th Street after a fire went through the units in Hickory Hills, IL on Thursday February 2, 2012. |
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| Bolingbrook High School's #44, Morgan Tuck, grabs a loose ball from Lincoln-Way East's #45, Caitlin McMahon, during their game at Lincoln-Way East in Frankfort, IL on Tuesday January 17, 2012. |
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| Jeff Cerullo, from the Blue Island Park District heads up to put some finishing touches onto the new sled launch while he got caught in the first snow of the season inside of Memorial Park in Blue Island, IL on Thursday January 12, 2012. |
