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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Humboldt Park family’s home transformed: ‘I feel happy’

Lana Purnell (far left) and son Julius Purnell (center) check out his newly furnished bedroom with his siblings, Johnny and Victoria Walker. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

The house Lana Purnell and her three children left Friday morning wasn’t the same when they returned in the early afternoon.

The address and the red door were the same. But inside, the-first floor apartment where she’d been living with Julius, 16, Johnny, 10, and Victoria, 6, was wholly different.

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