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CHICAGO — A shelter housing migrant families in the Pilsen neighborhood is set to close in under two weeks, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the migrants currently living there will end up back at a CPD police station. The community-run shelter near 21st Street and Racine Avenue has helped hundreds of migrant families who have […]
Nearly 100 asylum-seekers who made a home at a community-run shelter in Pilsen must leave the building by Sept. 3 due to a confluence of bad luck that includes a lack of funding and volunteers. Officials learned last week of the fate of the building said Lucia Moya, chief of staff of Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, whose office initially helped to gather volunteers and stakeholders in the ...
Todo Para Todos, an independent shelter in Pilsen, is set to close on Sept. 3, due to staffing and insurance-related reasons. They’re aiming to house 80 remaining residents by then.
Todo Para Todos — a migrant shelter whose name means “everything for everyone” — was established as a promise that Chicago was a welcoming city.