Orion Rummler

LGBTQ+ Reporter

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At 61, Marcus Ford spends most nights riding the Chicago Red Line or looking for a park bench or bus stop that can hold him over until morning. Sleep is rare. And after going through a battery of radiation treatments to treat prostate cancer, he can feel the toll of going too long without it.

He’s waited months to be let into a shelter. Most of them are at capacity as the winter months creep closer.

“You call one number, and they give you another number, and then you call another number and they give you back to the first person that you call,” he said. “It’s a vicious kind of cycle that you’re caught up in, and it’s just a luck of the draw to get some sort of housing, even for a senior person like mys

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