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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 ...