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Mercy Home Family Helps Others in Times of Crisis
September 14, 2017 • The Mercy Home for Boys & Girls family continues to come together in prayer, concern, and action for those in...
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Mission Flashes Football Team Set Boys up for Success
September 8, 2017 • Read about the "Mission Flashes," our football team formed in the 1920's as an effort to build up our boys'...
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Mercy Home Youth Tour Ground Zero
September 7, 2017 • In the summer of 2002, Fr. Scott Donahue and several of our young people visited Ground Zero to pay their...
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Mercy Home Hero Runs 50K In One Day
September 6, 2017 • Our Mercy Home Heroes team coordinator, Jim Harding is fond of reciting the team motto—“no distance is too far to...
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1990s: Marathon Supports the Home
September 1, 2017 • While we celebrate our 130th a year, we're looking back on a partnership with another institution celebrating its 40 anniversary:...
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Celebrating Silver in the 60s
August 10, 2017 • Read a firsthand account of life Mercy Home for Boys & Girls in the 1960s.
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Chicago’s Greatest Disaster Remembered
July 24, 2017 • Read about the Eastland Disaster and the role that Mercy Home for Boys & Girls played in caring for those...
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Fighting for the Future
July 24, 2017 • Learn how Mercy Home for Boys & Girls fought for the future of its mission and the children it served...
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Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act
July 13, 2017 • Mercy Home is urging support of legislation that would help front-line professionals recognize and respond to psychological trauma through trauma-informed...
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Rooting for the Home Team
June 29, 2017 • Read about how Charles Comiskey, the innovative owner of the Chicago White Sox, stepped up to the plate to help...