At least 200 people were present at a Hyde Park restaurant demanding answers about a new migrant shelter set to open there.
Wallace Goode argues with Doris Lewis during a meeting at The Promontory in Hyde Park on Aug. 30, 2023, to discuss a plan to turn the Lake Shore Hotel into a shelter for recently arrived migrants.
About 200 people were on hand as residents questioned city officials about everything from whether new arrivals would be vaccinated and fingerprinted to how their children would be educated to the food they would eat to whether migrants were being housed in other parts of Chicago.
Deputy Chicago police chief Stephen Chung and newly seated Ald. Desmon Yancy, 5th, responded with a discussion of preceding incidents with migrants at the Lake Shore and what residents should do when they witness criminal activity, but Edwards was not satisfied with their answers.Much of the dissatisfaction hinged on the level of services the city was providing to current residents, particularly in predominantly Black areas of the city.
Throughout the meeting, attendees applauded or shouted back at questions and comments they disagreed with. Yancy pleaded with the crowd for order multiple times.Gerry Bouey, 70, said he’d come to the meeting in hopes of having a conversation and had been dismayed at the level of tension in the room. “They’re just screaming at each other,” he said.
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