Sunday, November 8, 2009 East Central Illinois

Time to fold up 'tent city'

Tuesday June 30, 2009
 

The city's patience with a tent city of homeless people is understandable, but it cannot not be inexhaustible.

If the purpose of tent city, the makeshift shelter for eight homeless people in the backyard of the Catholic Worker House in Champaign, was to draw attention to a legitimate social problem, fine. Point taken.

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