"Chicago officials have shut down a homeless encampment ahead of the Democratic National Convention."

[DrLeftover]

The tents are gone from the site off the Dan Ryan Expressway south of Roosevelt Road. The people who lived there have been offered housing until Aug. 31 in a former hotel on the Near North Side.

Patricia Nix-Hodes, of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, said it is critical that the city provide permanent homes for the people who were moved.

Chicago homeless camp closes before Democratic convention

(The Center Square) – Chicago officials have shut down a homeless encampment ahead of the Democratic National Convention.

www.thecentersquare.com

and

Ahead of DNC, city officials to close, cordon off one of Chicago's largest, most visible homeless camps

Federal officials haven't asked that the "tent city" next to the Dan Ryan Expressway be cleared, but a top mayoral aide says she doesn't want to wait and then scramble.

chicago.suntimes.com

 

[Webster]

Wonder how long it'll take for those encampments to return after the DNC....

 

[Dead2009]

Lmao, they only moved them BECAUSE of the DNC. It's a bad look to have a bunch of homeless people running around near the site of your biggest convention.