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Chicago’s plan to clear away its biggest tent city troubles a homeless former gang leader

Chicago’s plan to clear away its biggest tent city troubles a homeless former gang leader

WBEZ News · WBEZ Chicago

October 16, 20246m 49s

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Chicago’s largest tent encampment is in Humboldt Park. Until recently, that Northwest Side greenspace had about a hundred inhabitants. The number is headed down as the city provides rent-free apartments to some of them. But there aren’t enough units for all the park’s unhoused people. And city officials say, apartment or not, everyone will have to leave the park. A former leader of a street gang tells WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell he won’t settle for a shelter bed. HOST: DIXON