CHICAGO (WBBM Newsradio 780) -- As Loyola University expands to the south in the Edgewater neighborhood, it is trying to spread a protective net further to ensure student and neighohood safety. And so, there'll be a storefront police station on Granville between Broadway and Winthrop.
WBBM's John Cody reports Illinois Senator Dick Durbin rounded up so federal rehab dollars, the CTA provided the space and Loyola will be providing 24-hour staffing in a bulding with importance far beyond its square footage, according to Alderman Mary Ann Smith.
"It's a storefront in a neighborhood. It's not the UN, you know, but it's the cumulative effect of small things and sometimes the symbolic effect of things like this that really do create profound change," Smith said.
Chicago beat police and community policing officials will be dropping in to help create a presence on a street -- Granville -- that had been a place to avoid in the evening in years past.
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