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Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration is moving ahead on a plan to get the homeless residents of a controversial Gompers Park encampment into housing. City officials laid out their plan today for an 'accelerated moving event' at the Northwest Side park where people have lived in tents for months. The delayed effort's 'north star' is to get the encampment's 29 residents into permanent housing, but the city will not be asking people to leave, Chief Homelessness Officer Sendy Soto said.
'We want to ensure that they are receiving the services and that this does not feel like a displacement for them, but rather receiving a benefit and an opportunity,' Soto said.
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The Chicago Fire Football Club celebrated the opening of its new training facility on the Near West Side in a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday, as community members, public housing residents and worker and housing advocates remain frustrated with the Fire and the Chicago Housing Authority, whose land the facility sits on. Read more here.
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15-year-old girl wounded Tuesday morning in shooting near school in Chatham neighborhood
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Despite fears that a private sale would risk demolition or, at least, alterations to the 158-year-old structure, the new owners say they want to take care of — not change — the property. Read more here.
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Gated house on Lake Michigan in Winnetka was on market for $10.3M, taken off next day
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The Bears will acquire sixth-year interior lineman Jonah Jackson from the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for a sixth-round pick in this year's draft, a league source confirmed to the Tribune. Read more here.
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Chicago's large Catholic population means there are plenty of restaurants helping to make the period from Ash Wednesday to Easter a little less painful by offering seafood-focused specials. Read more here.
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'Greenland is not for sale' has become a mantra for Greenlanders in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump pushed their Arctic homeland into the spotlight by threatening to take it over. Read more here.
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