{"id":33274,"date":"2016-03-01T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=33274"},"modified":"2016-03-02T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:10:10","slug":"loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sophie Zhang<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than 30 students joined Habitat for Humanity’s Loyola University branch \u00a0Feb. 24 to make fleece blankets for homeless people struggling to make it through yet another Chicago winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day I actually saw somebody using one of our blankets near Grant Park, and I felt like we were really doing something for them and the experience was really special,\u201d said Khateeb Raza, president, whose organization gave out more than 20 blankets in 2015.<\/p>\n

All the blankets were made using Loyola’s colors, maroon and gold.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to show some Loyola love and create a bonding\u201d, said Alanna Kerstein, who helped organize the event.<\/p>\n

An estimated 140,000 homeless people live in Chicago, according to the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. Statewide, 48,000 people <\/a>are served in government-funded shelters each year.<\/p>\n

[vimeo 157247306 w=474]<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Loyola’s Habitat for Humanity members\u00a0believe the small effort of making and providing blankets helps people be aware of the living situation of homeless people in the city. (Sophie Zhang\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sophie Zhang More than 30 students joined Habitat for Humanity’s Loyola University branch \u00a0Feb. 24 to make fleece blankets for homeless people struggling to make it through yet another Chicago winter. \u201cOne day I actually saw somebody using one of our blankets near Grant Park, and I felt like we were really doing something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":33275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2016"],"yoast_head":"\nLoyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sophie Zhang More than 30 students joined Habitat for Humanity’s Loyola University branch \u00a0Feb. 24 to make fleece blankets for homeless people struggling to make it through yet another Chicago winter. \u201cOne day I actually saw somebody using one of our blankets near Grant Park, and I felt like we were really doing something […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-01T22:05:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-03-02T17:10:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BLANKETS.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"613\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"yichenzhang\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"yichenzhang\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"yichenzhang\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e264daccf07d52c756c4845a0bbc9278\"},\"headline\":\"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-01T22:05:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-02T17:10:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":178,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/s3.amazonaws.com\\\/medill.wordpress.offload\\\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/3\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/BLANKETS.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Winter 2016\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/\",\"name\":\"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather - Medill Reports Chicago\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/s3.amazonaws.com\\\/medill.wordpress.offload\\\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/3\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/BLANKETS.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-01T22:05:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-02T17:10:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e264daccf07d52c756c4845a0bbc9278\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/s3.amazonaws.com\\\/medill.wordpress.offload\\\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/3\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/BLANKETS.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/s3.amazonaws.com\\\/medill.wordpress.offload\\\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/3\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/BLANKETS.png\",\"width\":1100,\"height\":613},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/\",\"name\":\"Medill Reports Chicago\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e264daccf07d52c756c4845a0bbc9278\",\"name\":\"yichenzhang\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fa67db5a855eda721d4dd7fafe2d33fcf747536789e15ab732c6aafe64f14ade?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fa67db5a855eda721d4dd7fafe2d33fcf747536789e15ab732c6aafe64f14ade?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fa67db5a855eda721d4dd7fafe2d33fcf747536789e15ab732c6aafe64f14ade?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"yichenzhang\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\\\/chicago\\\/author\\\/yichenzhang\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather - Medill Reports Chicago","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather - Medill Reports Chicago","og_description":"By Sophie Zhang More than 30 students joined Habitat for Humanity’s Loyola University branch \u00a0Feb. 24 to make fleece blankets for homeless people struggling to make it through yet another Chicago winter. \u201cOne day I actually saw somebody using one of our blankets near Grant Park, and I felt like we were really doing something […]","og_url":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/","og_site_name":"Medill Reports Chicago","article_published_time":"2016-03-01T22:05:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-03-02T17:10:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1100,"height":613,"url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BLANKETS.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"yichenzhang","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"yichenzhang","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/"},"author":{"name":"yichenzhang","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/#\/schema\/person\/e264daccf07d52c756c4845a0bbc9278"},"headline":"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather","datePublished":"2016-03-01T22:05:26+00:00","dateModified":"2016-03-02T17:10:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/"},"wordCount":178,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BLANKETS.png","articleSection":["Winter 2016"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/","url":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/","name":"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather - Medill Reports Chicago","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BLANKETS.png","datePublished":"2016-03-01T22:05:26+00:00","dateModified":"2016-03-02T17:10:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/#\/schema\/person\/e264daccf07d52c756c4845a0bbc9278"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BLANKETS.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BLANKETS.png","width":1100,"height":613},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/loyola-students-tie-blankets-to-protect-homeless-people-against-cold-weather-video\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Loyola students tie blankets to protect homeless people against cold weather"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/","name":"Medill Reports Chicago","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/#\/schema\/person\/e264daccf07d52c756c4845a0bbc9278","name":"yichenzhang","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa67db5a855eda721d4dd7fafe2d33fcf747536789e15ab732c6aafe64f14ade?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa67db5a855eda721d4dd7fafe2d33fcf747536789e15ab732c6aafe64f14ade?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa67db5a855eda721d4dd7fafe2d33fcf747536789e15ab732c6aafe64f14ade?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"yichenzhang"},"url":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/author\/yichenzhang\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}