After months of delay, a new migrant shelter for families is opening at the shuttered St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in Portage Park later this month, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced late Friday. …
A woman walks a dog near the the former St. Bartholomew Catholic Church school building in the 4900 block of West Addison Street in Chicago on April 5, 2024. , a new migrant shelter for families is opening at the shuttered St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in Portage Park later this month, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced late Friday.about the state’s role in directly providing housing for thousands of migrants who had arrived in Chicago in recent months, citing rising city costs.
“This initiative represents a remarkable example of what can be achieved when the public, private, and non-profit sectors collaborate towards a common goal,” Johnson said in the release. “My administration’s Office of Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Rights brought together an intergovernmental and an interfaith coalition to the table to work out this agreement.”
In all, 38,624 individuals seeking asylum have arrived in the city since the beginning of the crisis, according to city data. 9,680 people were staying in shelters as of Friday. Another 84 people are awaiting placement. Johnson recently announced he would move asylum-seekers out of shelters that had been set up at a handful of Park District facilities across the city., health officials separately confirmed Friday.
In all, the city and state are operating 21 shelters across Chicago. The city did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the delay between the planned January move-in and Friday’s announcement.last month that the site was one of several the archdiocese had offered to the city over the course of a year.for both long-term immigrants in the U.S.
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