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Almost two months after the city released an environmental report revealing elevated levels of harmful toxins at a proposed migrant camp on 38th Street and California Avenue, residents said city officials have yet to provide a clear plan to address their escalating concerns about water safety in Brighton Park. “The city knows that there’s lead in the water, and they’re allowing these residents ...

Workers are set to start building Chicago’s first government-run tent encampment for migrants at a Southwest Side lot, officials said after a series of recent false starts and stops over the controversial base camp. Workers on Tuesday will “lay out materials, measure and begin placing bases” for the large encampment in Brighton Park, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s spokesman Ronnie Reese said in a ...

Would you like to pitch a tent for the winter on a site contaminated by toxic metals from long-ago industrial production? We didn’t think so. We would think it would go practically without saying that the site of a former zinc smelter probably isn’t fit for a campground. Yet that’s apparently still the Johnson administration’s plan for providing shelter to as many as 2,000 migrants over the ...

A proposal by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to have a migrant tent base camp in Brighton Park took a step forward when the city signed a six-month, $548,400 land use contract for the site. The city entered into the agreement with the company that owns the site on Oct. 26, according to a copy of the contract shared with the Tribune. Johnson’s administration acknowledged the agreement, but said ...

Tension on the Southwest Side is escalating ahead of a community meeting scheduled for Tuesday night over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to erect winterized tents to house migrants in an empty parking lot in Brighton Park as an early-morning scuffle between police and protesters broke out. According to the Chicago Fire Department, a woman was taken to the hospital with a minor ankle injury after ...

CHICAGO - Tension on the Chicago's Southwest Side is escalating ahead of a community meeting scheduled for Tuesday night over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to erect winterized tents to house migrants in an empty parking lot in Brighton Park as a scuffle between police and protesters broke out early Tuesday morning. According to the Chicago Fire Department, a woman was taken to the hospital with ...

A man recording a TikTok video was arrested for allegedly shoving South Side Ald. Gregory Mitchell on Monday morning in the lobby at City Hall, authorities said, in the second altercation involving a City Council member this past week. The 47-year-old pushed another man, later identified by sources as Mitchell, 54, in the neck area and was taken into custody, Chicago police said. Charges were ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday in a statement called the physical attack on 12th Ward Ald. Julia Ramirez during a migrant camp protest...

Several progressive aldermen and activists have joined a growing list of critics calling for the Chicago City Council to reject an arbitrator’s ruling that would allow Chicago police officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases decided behind closed doors. “Let’s not take steps back, but let’s keep working together to make sure that cops are held accountable,” Ald. ...

Several progressive aldermen and activists have joined a growing list of critics calling for the Chicago City Council to reject an arbitrator’s ruling that would allow Chicago police officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases decided behind closed doors. “Let’s not take steps back, but let’s keep working together to make sure that cops are held accountable,” Ald. ...