Residents, city officials and community leaders gathered Thursday evening at the Broadway Armory in Edgewater to raise complaints against recently announced plans to move programming from the armory in order to provide temporary shelter for asylum-seekers.
Area residents watch a presentation during an information meeting about a plan to house migrants at the Broadway Armory, July 27, 2023, in Chicago. The armory, operated by the Chicago Park District, is scheduled to be a temporary shelter for migrants starting in August.
Since she learned of the city’s plan, Ginger Williams, a director of the local senior citizen advocacy group Edgewater Village Chicago, collected signatures against the repurposing of the facility, saying that “the most vulnerable would be displaced.”Edie Tillis, a retired schoolteacher who runs programming at the armory, said the news made her sad. She carried a pink petition form and said she’d already collected 500 names.
Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth, 48th, speaks during a meeting on July 27, 2023, about a plan to house migrants at the Broadway Armory in Chicago. Pacione-Zayas said the city scrambled to receive three buses from Texas with migrants on Thursday alone. Every day more migrants are arriving to Chicago, mostly from Central and South America.
Initially, Hampton said she was upset when she learned that city officials had designated the armory as a shelter without taking into consideration the hundreds of seniors and children that frequent the space consistently.
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