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An animated image first shows a parking lot with a sign that says "Eastview Community Center Parking." Tents can be seen set up in the background and a dumpster. Text added to the image in the bottom right says "April 11, 2024." The photo fades to an image of the same lot with no tents in the background. Text in the bottom right says "October 15, 2024."
Melissa Ellin
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WGLT
A homeless encampment near downtown Bloomington that started growing around a year ago in an overflow parking lot is no longer. By end of day Oct. 15, the roughly 35 unsheltered community members who’d been staying there left and all signs of the encampment — tents, pallets, personal belongings — were gone.