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Opioid Treatment Center Gets to Stay in Gary Neighborhood

GARY - An opioid treatment center that has relocated in Gary's Miller neighborhood is unwelcomed by several area residents, who took their concerns to city administration.

The "Times" reports the individuals concerned over the new location of Semoran Treatment Center, now at 5001 E. Dunes Hwy, were told that the treatment center has the right to stay where it is because the area in which it's located is already zoned so that health care services/medical offices are “permitted by right,” to be there.  That means no special public hearings or notifications were necessary for the facility to move there.

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Sharon Jackson is the local host of "All Things Considered" and a reporter for Lakeshore Public Radio. She has been with 89.1 FM since its launch in 2009. Sharon is also a radio DJ in Chicago, and has been since 2004. In her previous job at Metro Networks/Westwood One, she was heard on am 890 WLS, WGN radio 720 am and am 560 WIND. She has also delivered news and traffic reports on radio stations all over Chicago and the suburbs including 95.9 The River, 98.3 WCCQ and Star 96.7.