(CHICAGO) — The city 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.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration also plans to open a welcoming center at Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School, 1147 N. Western Ave. Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th), chair of the City Council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee, described it as a point of entry for migrants arriving in Chicago.
The potential new shelter sites were identified in a memo distributed to Council members in advance of Wednesday’s committee meeting on the migrant crisis.
The largest of the new locations would be the former Marine Corps Reserve Center at 3034 W. Foster Ave. in the Far Northwest Side’s 39th Ward. It would have an estimated capacity of 1,000.
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