Chicago Sees Record Number of Homeless Students

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CHICAGO - Maria Maior's son is a football-playing, skateboard- riding, Xbox-loving kid whose home reveals all the trappings of domesticity: a cushy sofa, big-screen TV, a framed poster of Brian Urlacher, one of the 12-year-old's favorite football players. On most evenings, two big dogs curl up on the carpeting.

The scene could be lifted from any suburban subdivision - except that it's located not in a den, but in a storage unit.

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Chicago Sees Record Number of Homeless Students

The boy moved into the 10-by-25-foot bunker about two months ago with his mom and her fiance, after a long run of bad luck and the loss of both their jobs.

"As long as I have my parents, I'm fine with this," Maior's son says of the ac...

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