Shelter, staff celebrate 35 years of helping women in crisis

In the heady days of the summer of 1971, about 30 women gathered in the living room of a stately Urbana home to launch an experiment.

Inspired by the burgeoning women's movement, they wanted to create a place where "women in crisis" could go for help – especially women with children who had few financial resources to live on their own.

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