Candice Payne Got 30 Hotel Rooms for Homeless People in Chicago During Severe Cold Snap | The New York Times

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Candice Payne rented 30 hotel rooms for more than 100 homeless people in Chicago when the temperature dropped to well below zero. Credit Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press. Featured Image

As temperatures plunged to life-threatening lows this week, more than 100 homeless people in Chicago unexpectedly found themselves with food, fresh clothes and a place to stay after a local real estate broker intervened.

The broker, Candice Payne, 34, said it was a “spur-of-the-moment” decision to help. “It was 50 below, and I knew they were going to be sleeping on ice and I had to do something,” she said on Saturday.

Ms. Payne contacted hotels and found 30 rooms available at the Amber Inn for Wednesday night at $70 per room. Temperatures in Chicago reached lows of minus 25 and minus 26 on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

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