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New PADS shelter will have enough space to isolate sick residents

By WCMY News Jan 16, 2022 | 5:50 AM

When Ottawa homeless shelter residents are sick, they either have to leave or stay in the same room with other people who are healthy. That’s a bigger problem in the era of COVID-19. Executive Director Carol Alcorn says when Illinois Valley PADS builds a new shelter on E. McKinley Rd., it will have an opportunity to create separate spaces.

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PADS is taking its conditional use permit request to the Ottawa Plan Commission Monday night next week.

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