Homan Square facility

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The Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility is a former Sears, Roebuck and Company warehouse on the city's West Side. The facility houses the department's Evidence and Recovered Property Section. In 2015, the facility gained worldwide notoriety when the American journalist Spencer Ackerman wrote a series of articles in The Guardian comparing it to a CIA black site. After publication, some activists described it as a "secret torture site." Ackerman asserted that people were detained at the facility without a public record of their whereabouts, and that lawyers were often denied access.

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