The city will use a $1.8 million court settlement from a strip club to help fund Chicago’s first new domestic violence shelter in more than a decade, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday. The 40-bed shelter to be built in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side would increase the capacity of the city’s domestic violence shelters by 36 percent, city officials said. In addition, at least 10 permanent housing units will be built site to provide affordable housing for when victims are ready to leave the shelter. The shelter, which would serve 100 families per year, is scheduled to open in June 2014. But that timeline is dependent on a partnership with private organizations raising the majority of the project’s funds through donations.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-city-to-build-new-domestic-violence-shelter-20130529,0,5321678.story
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
CITY TO BUILD NEW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER
The city will use a $1.8 million court settlement from a strip club to help fund Chicago’s first new domestic violence shelter in more than a decade, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday. The 40-bed shelter to be built in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side would increase the capacity of the city’s domestic violence shelters by 36 percent, city officials said. In addition, at least 10 permanent housing units will be built site to provide affordable housing for when victims are ready to leave the shelter. The shelter, which would serve 100 families per year, is scheduled to open in June 2014. But that timeline is dependent on a partnership with private organizations raising the majority of the project’s funds through donations.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-city-to-build-new-domestic-violence-shelter-20130529,0,5321678.story
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