A new residential mental health facility for youth might be coming to the site of the troubled Northern Illinois Academy, a similar type of center that closed several years ago.

The Aurora City Council on Tuesday is set to consider items that would allow the LYDIA Home Association, a Christian nonprofit that has been serving children in the Chicago area for over 100 years, to open a 40-bed residential treatment facility for youth ages 12 to 21 years old who have mental health and behavioral challenges, so have difficulty living in a family setting.

If approved, the facility would be opening in the existing, vacant nearly 50,000-square-foot building at 998 Corporate Blvd., which is on Aurora’s East Side near the Interstate 88 interchange at Farnsworth Avenue.

Ald. Daniel Barreiro, 1st Wa

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