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Article: South Loop building offers single rooms
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 3, 2000
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At first glance, the latest addition to the trendy South Loop_a
land of rising real estate values and relentless condo
conversions_might not seem like a perfect fit.
It's a 207-unit single-room-occupancy, or SRO, building for people
who were formerly homeless or on the verge of living on the streets.
But the modern, nine-story South Loop Apartments, which includes
an employment and job training center on the ground floor, is being
welcomed by its neighbors. This acceptance comes at a time when the
initials SRO are equivalent to the numbers 666 with some South Loop
residents.
Two of the SROs that help create that negative image are now
closed. The St. James Hotel on the southwest corner of ...