PEORIA — Most people in Brianna Lankford's situation would be freaking out, but Lankford was surprisingly calm. Maybe it's because being homeless is not the first — or even the worst — disaster weathered by the 24-year-old single mother of a severely disabled child. Lankford and her daughter have been living in cheap motels since Nov. 4. "I have talked to someone at the Salvation Army, and I think they are going to help me get into a place," she said while sitting in the lobby of a Peoria hotel Tuesday morning...
