Crisis center goes public Elgin facility reveals renovations, address.(News)

From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | Date: September 17, 2004| Author: O'Konowitz, Tom | Copyright information

Byline: Tom O'Konowitz Daily Herald Staff Writer

The Community Crisis Center of Elgin always has kept secret the location of its domestic violence shelter while still making it accessible to victims.

The conventional wisdom is that publishing shelter addresses could make it easy for abusers to seek out their victims who had fled, but the Elgin-based crisis center has decided it no longer will follow that traditional rule.

"We decided we'd rather lo...

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