CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- In the Loop, Uptown activists take their fight against luxury apartments to city hall.
Evicted from the property at Wilson and Clarendon after 11 days of camping out in protest of planned luxury apartments, affordable housing advocates now take their fight to City Hall calling on the denial and revocation of Lincoln Property Company construction permits for the site.
70- year-old Uptown resident Ronald Schupp had been one of the camping protestors.
He told WBBM that his fight for affordable housing is a personal one.
"I have some friends that have been displaced and I'm in an apartment now," Schupp said. "I don't know how long I'll be there. The rent is good now, but I don't know how long I'll be there. Hopefully, It will work out."
The affordable housing advocates gathered outside City Hall are asking that no development take place pending further conversation on how the land could be used in interest of all residents in Uptown.
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