Meeting turns heated as City explains plans for Gompers Park Encampment
The Gompers Park tent encampment has found itself at the center of debates around the city on how to handle situations ...
Homeless camp to stay in Gompers Park until 2025, city tells Northwest Side neighbors
Some residents say Mayor Brandon Johnson should quickly move people from the encampment as he has done elsewhere in the city.
City officials hold meeting on Gompers Park Encampment
The Gompers Park tent encampment has found itself at the center of debates around the city on how to handle situations ...
Neighbors want city to find homes for residents of encampment in Chicago's Gompers Park
Residents of North Mayfair want the city to provide brick-and-mortar homes for the people living in the tents, as well as ...
City to hold meeting on Gompers Park Encampment
The Gompers Park tent encampment has found itself at the center of debates around the city on how to handle situations regarding the unhoused. Ahead of a planned meeting organized ...
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Residents pack meeting on Gompers Park encampment, demand city clear it and finding housing
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Residents around Gompers Park on the city's Far Northwest Side demanded officials find help and housing so ...
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Northwest Siders Spar Over Gompers Park Tent City — But Encampment Is Staying Put For Now
Some Northwest Side neighbors have petitioned the city to remove the homeless encampment, arguing that it attracts crime and ...
Tent camp on the Northwest Side is at the center of a battle over homelessness
Gompers Park encampment residents say they would prefer to move to real housing but need assistance. But Mayor Brandon ...
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Politicians often link crime and homelessness. The reality is more complex
As the homelessness crisis grows, it’s common for the public and politicians to conflate homeless encampments and criminal ...
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Neighbors want to clear homeless encampment in Chicago's Gompers Park
The people who live in the North Mayfair neighborhood near the park do not want the tents simply torn down. They want the city to provide brick-and-motor homes for the people living in the tents, as ...
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Tent camp on the Northwest Side is at the center of a battle over homelessness
Children play baseball next to a homeless encampment at Gompers Park. Neighbors say the tent ... people was moved from the North Branch of the Chicago River between Foster and Bryn Mawr avenues ...
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Politicians often link crime and homelessness. The reality is more complex
Melissa Farmer often walks her dog through Gompers Park on Chicago’s northwest side. “This park is gorgeous. People don't know about it,” she said, walking along a lagoon on a recent morning.