Chicago city departments on Wednesday moved forward with what they called a cleanup effort at the homeless encampment in Gompers Park on the Northwest Side. Concerns about the encampment have been ...

Chicago’s chief homelessness officer, talk to reporters during a DFFS “accelerated moving event” for residents of Gompers Park’s homeless encampments on March 5, 2025. (Audrey Richardson ...

Signs posted at the park said tents on the Foster Avenue side would be banned starting April 1, but city officials held off ...

The aftermath of a fire at a homeless encampment at Gompers Park on Feb. 5, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune) Addressing homelessness is a key focus for Johnson, who strongly backed an ...

The Chicago Department of Family and Support Services is holding an "accelerated moving event" this week to get people out of a homeless encampment in Gompers Park on the Northwest Side and into ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — More than two dozen people who’d been living in a homeless encampment at Gompers Park on the city’s northwest side are proceeding with the process to find stable housing ...

CHICAGO — After long delays, people living in a homeless encampment in Gompers Park on the city’s Northwest Side will get a chance to secure free support services and more stable, permanent ...

city officials and homeless advocates on the best path forward for the people who have set up camp along Foster Avenue. The future of the roughly 20 people in the Gompers Park encampment remains ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dozens living in Gompers ... and "parks are for the people" were seen scattered across the encampment in Gompers Park. "The priority for me is restoring them to housing," 39th ...

After long delays, people living in a homeless encampment in Gompers Park on the city's Northwest Side will get a chance to secure free support services and more stable, permanent housing.