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Dec 4, 2023 · A Brighton Park migrant housing tent on Monday shows a roof now covering the shelter. But construction was halted Sunday at the site with tents intended to house newly arrived migrants pending an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency review of a nearly 800-page city consultant’s study that was released Friday night. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times.
Nov 27, 2023 · While construction on both locations will begin this week, asylum seekers will not move into the Brighton Park location until all environmental concerns have been addressed. Pending this work, the shelter sites are expected to open and begin housing asylum seekers as early as mid-December.
Nov 28, 2023 · Advancing a data-driven plan to improve the asylum seeker response and provide safe shelter through the winter, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced construction will launch this week on two new shelter sites.
Nov 27, 2023 · State officials will spend $65 million to build a winterized base camp in Brighton Park and transform a vacant CVS drugstore in Little Village into a shelter in an effort to house the thousands of migrants who are at risk of dying on Chicago’s streets now that winter weather has settled over the city, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office announced ...
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Mar 18, 2024 · The Asylum Seeker Emergency Rental Assistance Program has helped about 4,600 households move out of shelters and into apartments since December 2022. Local leaders have heralded it as a critical state program to find alternative housing and support the city’s ability to absorb thousands of migrants arriving in Illinois since 2022.