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The Focal Point Community Campus promises to bring healthcare services to Little Village. So why isn’t everyone on board?
Focal Point Community Campus When Lucky Camargo drives past the vast stretch of vacant land on 31st Street and Kedzie Avenue, she’s reminded of what used to be in Little Village. It’s the site of the old Washburne Trade School, which she said created secure, well-paying jobs for people in the community. But now, the neighborhood is at the mercy of an unstable gig economy. “This neighborhood is under siege and income inequality is rampant, which makes this type of exploitation possible,” Camargo said. “They [St. Anthony Hospital] benefit from public dollars and then collect all the p...