Tue. January 21, 2014
Chicago, IL -
After months of conflict in the neighborhood, a city board unanimously approved Broadway Youth Center's special-use permit to operate in a church on Wellington Avenue.
The social and health services agency, a Howard Brown Health Center affiliate, primarily serves at-risk LGBT youth. It's been operating out of the Wellington United Church of Christ, 615 W. Wellington Ave., since the summer, but it needed a special-use permit.
The Zoning Board of Appeals's 4-0 decision to grant the permit was largely expected by both supporters of the location and those opposed to it after Friday's hearing.
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