Last residents leave Halsey Village as Navy ponders property’s fate; North Chicago planning potential development

Last residents leave Halsey Village as Navy ponders property’s fate; North Chicago planning potential development

Months of pressure from federal, state and local officials — including a May grilling of then-U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro by U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth — led the Navy to take the first step toward potentially turning the abandoned Halsey Village subdivision in North Chicago into a multi-use development. A 90-acre residential project with 352 homes that once housed Navy families, only 78 were occupied in August. Approximately 75% of the ho…