Former social worker starts to get her life back on track

CHAMPAIGN – A workplace injury led Sue Studnicka on a downward spir- al that eventually left her homeless.

The 54-year-old former social worker was one of the first clients at an overflow shelter set up at a Champaign church last January. She'd been living in her car and a Rantoul motel for about two months.

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