SOS Children's Villages
Illinois

Every Child Deserves a Home

Village Locations

  • Chicago
  • Lockport
More than 518,000 American children are in foster care. Three in four are separated from their siblings. Most will live in six or more foster homes. And once they age out of foster care:
  • 40% live on public assistance
  • 46% never finish high school
  • 84% have a child within 18 months
  • 25% are homeless at some time
There must be a better way —
and there is ...
Before she came to SOS, K was scared and confused. She had been jostled from her birth mother, to a foster home and then to a shelter.
Join us for the 12th Annual SOS Gala, May 2, 2008 at the Four Seasons Hotel