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Uptown Tent City Residents Removed from Viaducts Without Permanent Housing

Uptown Tent City
Chicago’s Uptown Tent City (Source: Chicago Activism)

CHICAGO, IL – (ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2017. This morning 25 residents, known as Uptown Tent City, were removed from the parkway west of the Wilson viaduct by the Chicago Police Department.  Chicago Police Department officers and Streets and Sanitation employees forced residents to dismantle their tents and tossed the tents that were not dismantled into flatbed trucks to be taken to storage.

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