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Anti-Eviction Group Fights To Help Chicago Tenants
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Kristyn Hartman
CHICAGO (CBS) ―

It was the knock on the door she dreaded, and early Tuesday morning, it came. Sheriff's deputies arrived at the Chicago apartment of Lenise Forrest to tell her she was being evicted; coincidentally the morning after she appeared on CBS 2 News with Kristyn Hartman.

Hartman met with Forrest who is getting some help from a new group in her fight to get back into her home.

That group is the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. In the tough economy, and the brutally cold weather, they're trying to support people who find themselves out of a job and out of a home.

Just Monday, we met the tenant who lived in an apartment someone was boarding up Tuesday.

"They said, you're gonna be evicted today," said Forrest. I told them, wasn't I supposed to get another warning? They said the judge said I have to go today."

Having had recent rent struggles, Forrest expected to be shown the door. But coming off a holiday eviction moratorium, she didn't think it would happen so soon.

"I grabbed a coat, a shirt and a sweater," she said.

She wasn't able to grab anything else.