HOPE VI program transformed a west side Rockford neighborhood
ROCKFORD — As a single mother, Katherine George fled to Rockford from the violence of the south side of Chicago in 2006 in search of a safer place to raise her three children. When she arrived here, she discovered a public housing approach that hadn't yet been attempted in the area. The close-quartered apartments of the former Champion Park on the city's west end had recently been demolished, and in their place stood a spacious neighborhood with multistory homes that resembled a traditional suburb more than public housing. "I did a walkthrough of one of the houses down the street an...
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