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The city plans to open a homeless shelter in a hotel in the Streeterville neighborhood, which prompted a demonstration Wednesday among soon-to-be laid off hotel workers. The 100 E. Chestnut St. site of the planned Streeterville shelter currently houses the Selina Chicago hotel. The shelter will be run using state funding for emergency and transitional housing, city officials said. The move to . ....
A boutique hotel right off the Magnificent Mile in Gold Coast is becoming a new city shelter, this time "not for asylum-seekers" but for Chicago’s unhoused, according to the city. ....
The move to turn the Selina Chicago, at 100 E. Chestnut St. in Streeterville into a shelter comes as hundreds of Chicagoans sleep on the streets and thousands. ....