In Chicago’s epic freeze, some homeless feel more comfortable outdoors

By Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blanca Rodriguez, a 52-year-old homeless woman, spent a night at one of the warming centres Chicago set up ahead of the Arctic-like weather that froze a large swath of the United States this week. But then Rodriguez, who was born in Monterrey, Mexico, went back to the homeless encampment on the North Side of Chicago where she had been staying the past couple of months, complaining the shelter took away her medications for high blood pressure and "a bad kidney".

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