Elgin easing angst Hurricane survivors find comfort at mental health center.(News)

Byline: Christine Byers Daily Herald Staff Writer Editor's note: This is the second in occasional series of stories that looks at how hurricane evacuees from New Orleans are sorting out their lives in Elgin. When a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors arrived at the Elgin Mental Health Center for temporary refuge, virtually every one of them couldn't wait to turn around and go back home.

But after two weeks of seemingly endless good will from state staffers and residents throughout the suburbs, fewer than a dozen still want to leave. "They feel the embrace of the ...

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