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Canaan Van Williams, a managing partner at an investment group that funds affordable housing, presented a request to purchase and rehabilitate a mobile home park in Blue Island to the city Tuesday night.

More than a dozen residents who have advocated to save their homes since June attended to support of Williams. The city has ordered the property owners to shut down the park due to code violations and public safety concerns,

Several residents have stated in recent months that if they lost their homes in the park, they worry they would have nowhere to go. Residents often own their mobile homes but rent the property it is on.

City officials said Tuesday that while they feel for the residents’ tough situation, the residents, along with Wil

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