Gompers Park is located on the northwest side of Chicago. For over two years, it was occupied by an encampment of unhoused individuals. Concerned neighbors formed the Restore Gompers Park Coalition in July 2024 to lobby city officials to invest in an Accelerated Moving Event (AME) to rapidly rehouse the unhoused into suitable housing - with access to wrap around services inclusive of mental health therapists, drug dependency counselors, employment assistance and case workers. Success finally came March 5th, 2025 when an AME began at Gompers Park. All 27 individuals who participated signed up for help and housing. At that time, the Coalition moved into the second phase of the mission to restore Gompers Park and return it to the nature-filled space it once was so that everyone could enjoy it again.