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Construction to build a winterized base camp for migrants is underway in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, despite concerns and protests from concerned...
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 ...
After weeks of intensive meetings, Chicago City Council has approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first city budget, a $16.77 billion spending plan aimed to boost police ranks, provide more services for
The city’s tactics seem like another page out of this administration’s handbook: stonewalling the public and elected officials while saying as little as possible.
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 ...