Migrants to be housed at shuttered Catholic school and convent on Chicago's Northwest Side

The Archdiocese of Chicago will lease the former convent and former school building on the St. Bartholomew Church campus to the city for free.

CHICAGO -- With hundreds of migrants moving out of five Chicago Park District sites in the coming weeks, Mayor Brandon Johnson 's office announced Friday that a new migrant family shelter will open at a shuttered Catholic school building and convent in Portage Park.The Archdiocese of Chicago will lease the former convent and former school building on the St.

Bartholomew Catholic Church is a testament to the resilience and empathy of our community,' Cruz said in a statement. 'I look forward to assisting the Zakat Foundation, Cook County, and the Archdiocese in providing these vulnerable families with a safe place and the necessary resources to create a new life for themselves.' It will be the first Catholic church site used as a migrant shelter in Chicago. In November, a migrant shelter opened at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park.

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