City, Unit 4, park district join forces for youth program
By Mike Monson
Monday February 25, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – The city, school board and park district are planning an ambitious program, starting this summer, to provide both educational and recreational opportunities for youths in the Garden Hills neighborhood in northwest Champaign.
The one-year $218,000 pilot program represents an unprecedented attempt by the governmental agencies to address the needs of some 600 youths in Garden Hills, where city officials saw increasing incidents of large unruly gatherings of youths, fighting and violent crime last summer before intervention efforts began to have an effect.
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