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Charity gala help provide shelter for troubled teens

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Tom Eagan, associate director of the Shelter, stands in the kitchen of the group home in Palatine that is a home for adolescent boys that face trouble in their homes.

Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

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The Shelter group home in Palatine provides a refuge for adolescent boys that face trouble in their homes. Instructions for the boys on chores that they must do to stay in the home are posted on the wall.

Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

Tom Eagan, associate director of Shelter, and Pat Beck, executive director, stand in the living quarters of the group home in Palatine that is a home for adolescent boys that face trouble in their homes.

Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

Andy Nogar, group home coordinator of the Shelter home in Palatine, shows off the bedroom where the adolescent boys sleep when they come to stay when trouble at home is too much for them.

Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

Robert O' Meara, president of the Shelter board, with wife Sue of Barrington Hills attend the 25th anniversary Shelter Charity Ball Friday at the Schaumburg Hyatt. The ball generates the money to open group homes and develop programs for troubled teens.

Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

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A home in Palatine quietly blends into the surrounding neighborhood, seemingly unaware of its milestone role. It was 25 years ago that Shelter Inc. — which offers emergency and long-term housing for children and adolescents — held its first Charity Ball. "This is the home that the Charity Ball built," Carol Brown, development director, said during a tour last week.