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Up to 400 Chicago migrants could be temporarily relocated to Wilbur Wright College in Dunning near Portage Park as police stations remain packed.
Four hundred asylum seekers could be housed at Wilbur Wright College starting June 1 — and remain on the Northwest Side campus until Aug. 1 — to minimize the need for migrant families to sleep on the floors of Chicago police stations, a top mayoral aide said Friday.
Dozens of Chicago migrants living in the Piotrowski Park shelter in Little Village are joining Chicago Public Schools.
Up to 400 Chicago migrants could be temporarily relocated to Wright College in Dunning near Portage Park as police stations remain packed.
Johnson’s chief of staff said the Northwest Side school is under serious consideration as a new respite center to “alleviate some of the pressure on the police stations.”