Illegal Beaner Trailer Park residents who sued Wheeling likely to be relocated at TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE

Five- year-old Yair Carreño rides his bike in the Fox Point Mobile Home Park in Wheeling on Sept. 10, 2013

Residents of a Wheeling trailer park who sued the village over efforts to force them to move would be paid to relocate under a deal approved by local leaders late Monday.

The Village Board in the northwest suburb voted unanimously in favor of the agreement with residents of the Fox Point Mobile Home Park, who filed a federal lawsuit three years ago contending the village was discriminating against them by forcing them out of their homes along the Des Plaines River.

At the time, severe flooding had damaged some of the mobile homes in the small park of about 40 units tucked behind Restaurant Row. The village had declared some homes uninhabitable.

The amount of money each family or resident would get in the settlement would vary, depending on factors including family size. Wheeling village attorney James Ferolo says he expects each family to receive $20,000 to $30,000, funded through a federal disaster recovery grant.

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