Chicago officials have shut down a homeless encampment ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
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.
Nix-Hodes also said the encampment area should not be shut down permanently. […]
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