Uptown, Chicago - Controversy

Controversy

In 2008, a group of residents sued the City of Chicago over its designation of the Wilson Yards lot as a TIF district.

In December 2009, a Chicago Tribune story reported on the problem facing eastern sections of Uptown where several nursing homes clustered in the area house the mentally ill, including felons. Many of these residents have committed a variety of serious crimes including murder, and 11 nursing homes in the area house 318 convicted felons and 1350 mentally ill people.

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