People Homeless USA 1988 Chicago

Harold Thomas, a homeless man who lived in an open shack in downtown Chicago for nine months, boards an intercity bus in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 16, 1988 headed to a new job in Portales, N.M. Thomas was offered a place to live and work by a couple who read of his plight in a newspaper a which to stay businesses gave Thomas a bus ticket, clothing and a hotel room in which to stay before he left Chicago. (AP Photo/Mark Elias)