After facing a $2 million cut in federal funding, A Safe Place — a Lake County organization that provides support to victims of domestic violence — is in the early stages of fundraising for a new multi-million dollar facility in Grayslake.

Today, the proposed plot of land is just farmland along Rollins Road, but the 17 acres would become a new home for “wraparound” services, according to A Safe Place CEO Patricia Davenport, with enough beds to house more than 100 people at any given time.

Davenport said she’s seen the need for their services rise “tremendously” in the last decade. When she took over as CEO in 2012, the organization was a $2 million operation serving about 500 people. Today, she said, that’s jumped to more than 24,000 people a year, with a $10 million annual budget, takin

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