Chicago is taking steps to open up to five new migrants shelters with a combined capacity of nearly 2,500 — including a former Marine Corps Reserve Center and the former Broadway Armory in Edgewater — to grapple with a continued surge of asylum-seekers.
administration also plans to open a welcoming center at Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School, 1147 N. Western Ave. Ald. Andre Vasquez , chair of the City Council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee, described it as a point of entry for migrants arriving in Chicago.
Broadway Armory, 5917 N. Broadway, is the second-largest of the newly identified locations. Its status was described: "In discussion w/Alder re: programming impacts and community engagement."Newly elected Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth said the armory was put to emergency use during the pandemic and called the current situation a "humanitarian crisis."
While calling it "unacceptable" for migrants to continue to sleep on the floors of Chicago police stations and even outside those district stations, Manaa-Hoppenworth said no final decision will be made until the community weighs in next month. "We want migrants to come to our community and stay in our community," he said. "They’re filling our schools. They’re living in our communities. They’ll eventually end up paying taxes."
As of last week, by the city’s count, there were 4,878 "new arrivals" in Chicago shelters, 1,288 of them minors. The briefing paper also reminds alderpersons not to use the term "respite" center. The city favors the term "shelter."
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