The viaduct on Des Plaines, between the Howard Mohr Community Center and Blue Line terminal, has been cleaned in a cross-governmental effort to improve safety in the area. Though the tents where unhoused people live remain, miscellaneous blankets, clothing, trash, needles and feces have been removed and discarded.
On Oct. 23, the Cook County Sheriff’s Department joined the Forest Park Police Department and public works department in cleaning the viaduct near the CTA Blue Line terminal at 711 Des Plaines.
“Many of us know that there have been encampments of unhoused persons,” Mayor Rory Hoskins said of the area during his commissioner’s comment at the Oct. 26 council meeting. “Sometimes that comes with hazards, so the Sheriff’s Office brought resources that helped our public works clean up that area in a very significant manner.”…