[Imc-summaries] War On The Underclass In Champaign

Sunday’s Champaign News-Gazette (March 11, 2001) carried a front page feature on a supposed surge in crime in the downtown area around the TIMES homeless shelter since it opened a year ago. It served to frame complaints that a proposed Methadone and needle exchange clinic in the same area would be a burden on the local neighborhood residents and businesses.

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