Breakfast with All Chicago 2025

Breakfast with All Chicago

Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 8:00 AM | The University Club

Thanks to you, we are feeling more inspired than ever from the incredible energy at Breakfast with All Chicago! 

From the beautiful setting at the University Club to the heartfelt remarks by our President and CEO, Carolyn K. Ross, the morning was filled with connection, purpose, and hope. Carolyn reminded us that when our city faces stress, our neighbors with no place to call home feel it most deeply. At this critical time, as federal resources remain uncertain, it's our moment to step forward together. 

And you did step forward. We raised nearly $400,000 and are still counting! Thank you! Every dollar helps us open more doors to safe housing and provide the critical resources needed to make homelessness history. 

Questions? Contact [email protected].

Keynote Speaker

Natalie Y. Moore

Natalie Y. Moore is a senior lecturer at Northwestern University, award-winning journalist, author, and playwright known for her reporting on race, housing, and segregation in Chicago. A longtime reporter and editor at WBEZ, her work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, the BBC, and in outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and The Guardian. 

She is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, which won the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award and was named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation and Deconstructing Tyrone. 

Moore has received numerous honors, including the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. She was named Best Journalist by the Chicago Reader in 2017 and received an honorary doctorate from Adler University. 

Also a playwright, her Jeff Award-winning play The Billboard premiered in 2022. She is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists.

 
At the 2025 Breakfast with All Chicago, Moore will draw on her expertise to explore the systemic causes of homelessness and housing inequity. 

Congratulations to our 2025 Stone Awardee:

Shana Hayes

We're honored to present the 2025 Norman H. Stone Award to Shana Hayes for her tireless work pursuing solutions to the problems facing our communities, including homelessness, and her fostering of collaboration and collective impact in addressing these issues.

Shana Hayes is Senior Vice President and Chief Social Impact Officer at Northern Trust, where she leads the firm's global philanthropic strategy and advances community development investment initiatives. Under her guidance, Northern Trust continues to deepen its legacy as a responsible corporate citizen-enhancing access to vital resources, empowering individuals to reach their fullest potential, and nurturing pathways to sustained financial success.

Key to Hope Award 2025

Ogden Management Group

Our Key to Hope Award 2025 winner is Ogden Management Group!

Ogden Management Group has been a dedicated partner with Chicago Rents for over three years, offering a strong portfolio of units in multiple buildings to support All Chicago's mission to prevent and end homelessness.

What sets them apart is their commitment to second chances, often going beyond standard screening practices to ensure housing is a foundation for stability, not a reward for perfection.Their compassion, reliability, and alignment with the Housing First approach make them a model for property management partners everywhere.

Thank you, Ogden Managment Group!

View Carolyn Ross' BWAC 2024 Remarks