CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The Night Ministry — an organization that's served Chicago's homeless population for 45 years — has shifted part of its focus because of COVID-19.
A lot of people know the Night Ministry because of their outreach bus. It is a large, imposing vehicle that contains a nurse's office and offers assistance to people on the street.
Coronavirus has changed things, in a way, and people can't hang around the bus like they used to do.
Paul Hamann, the CEO of the Night Ministry, says his organization started noticing more homeless people on the CTA, and so the Night Ministry took its services to them a couple nights a week.
"Those initial efforts which arose out of the pandemic have now resulted in a partnership with the Chicago Department of Public Health and the CTA to provide services at the end stops of the Red and the Blue Lines two nights a week," he said. "We actually set up shop there."
Hamann on Tuesday said the Night Ministry serves about 100 people at the two CTA stops every week.
