Teri Curran, West Suburban PADS director of programs, conducts a homelessness survey with Diane Coward at 5th Avenue and Lake Street in Maywood on Jan. 24. Coward, 51, has lived on the streets and stayed in shelters in Maywood, Wheaton and Waukegan for the past decade. | Natasha Wasinski~For Sun-Times Media

Roughly two dozen trained volunteers set out from West Suburban PADS in Maywood the early morning of Jan. 24 to survey homelessness. Every two years the Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County, baesd in Westchester, conducts a nightly count of unsheltered homeless people in the north, west and south suburbs. | Natasha Wasinski~For Sun-Times Media

Teri Curran, West Suburban PADS director of programs, conducts a homelessness survey with Diane Coward at 5th Avenue and Lake Street in Maywood on Jan. 24. Coward, 51, has lived on the streets and stayed in shelters in Maywood, Wheaton and Waukegan for the past decade. | Natasha Wasinski~For Sun-Times Media

Volunteers conducting thehomelessness survey on Jan. 24 made note of this temporary shelter of blankets near Harlem and North avenues.| Natasha Wasinski~For Sun-Times Media

Volunteers conducting thehomelessness survey on Jan. 24 made note of this temporary shelter of blankets near Harlem and North avenues.| Natasha Wasinski~For Sun-Times Media

Volunteers conducting thehomelessness survey on Jan. 24 made note of this temporary shelter of blankets near Harlem and North avenues.| Natasha Wasinski~For Sun-Times Media