Although some people criticized it as insensitive, 40th Ward Ald. Some items were discarded as migrants prepared to move. The biggest improvement, the pair said, was the improved privacy of moving from rooms shared by hundreds of people to rooms shared among a handful of families. “There’s good food, hot water, I like it.” They were moved Monday, said Hernandez, 20, and have taken a liking to it so far. Josimar Goyo and Brayan Hernandez, a pair of relatives who made the trip from Venezuela together, were among those moved to the new American Islamic College shelter in Uptown from Wilbur Wright. Now migrants are being moved once again as activists and the city work to keep migrants housed and safe with limited resources. The accusations drew the criticism of activists who decried the ability of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate such claims. Shelters and welcome centers have cropped up throughout the summer, but some are running out of resources and struggling to meet demand.Īllegations of sexual misconduct involving migrants have surfaced against police officers, including one who allegedly impregnated a teenage girl who immigrated to the city.

Greg Abbott fueled an influx of migrants arriving in Chicago last spring, the city has grappled with how to best shelter them.

“This move is not contingent upon any event, and is consistent with the City’s overall effort to move all new arrivals out of Chicago police stations and into shelters,” the spokesperson said in a statement from the mayor’s office.īefore the immigrants were moved from the South Loop police station to the North Side shelter, almost 1,000 were staying at police district stations throughout the city. According to OEMC, more than 100 people staying at the 1st District police station in the South Loop, about two miles from Grant Park, were moved to the Broadway Armory Park Fieldhouse in Edgewater, a decision that was the subject of community pushback by some residents.Ī spokesperson for OEMC said the move aligned with the city’s goal of moving immigrants from police stations into shelters, although a volunteer who works with the migrants at the 1st District said they did “the same thing during NASCAR.”Ī spokesperson for Mayor Brandon Johnson echoed OEMC, saying that transferring the migrants was planned in advance and not related to the influx of people headed to Grant Park for Lollapalooza.

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