As city readies clean-up of West Loop homeless encampment, residents and nearby workers hope more resources are offered

Andrew Bers has been living in a West Loop homeless encampment for the last two months, On Monday, the city plans to clear the area. “This ain’t the first time they’ve done this to me. I’ll just find another viaduct and do the same thing,” Bers says. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Andrew Bers is used to having to pack up his belongings and look for a new place to lay his head.

For the last two months he’s been staying at a tent encampment under viaducts in the West Loop with other unhoused people. But the area is being cleared Monday, and Bers is getting ready to move again.