A group of aldermen want to force a special City Council meeting on Chicago’s response to the migrant crisis, with criticism rising about the city’s system of makeshift shelters and with hundreds of asylum-seekers still sleeping on police station floors.
People work out on exercise equipment in a room above a gymnasium at the Broadway Armory on July 26, 2023. Part of the former National Guard facility is being planned as a shelter for migrants.
Several progressive colleagues on the committee joined Taylor in committing to a special City Council meeting, more than fulfilling the three-aldermen minimum required to force the session.It signaled the sharpest pressure yet for Chicago officials tasked with one of the new mayoral administration’s most intractable dilemmas.
In total, more than 11,500 asylum-seekers have arrived since August 2022, when Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sent the first busload of migrants north to Chicago. More than 5,400 are currently staying at city-run shelters, up 43.5% from January. In a letter to her constituents, Manaa-Hoppenworth said that “despite our ongoing efforts to facilitate a community-driven process, the city has decided to move forward with using the Armory as a shelter beginning August 1.”
”It is unrealistic to share this space with asylum-seekers,” said Ginger Williams, a senior woman who runs Edgewater Village Chicago inside the Armory. “A shelter is a microcosm of what we experience in our city,” Knazze said. “We got good actors, and we have bad apples.”
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