(CHICAGO) The city is taking steps to open up to five new migrants shelters with a combined capacity of nearly 2,500 including a former Marine Corps Reserve Center and the former Broadway Armory in Edgewater to grapple with a continued surge of asylum-seekers.
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Potential sites for new shelters were identified in a memo distributed to Chicago City Council members in advance of a meeting on Wednesday of the council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee.
Sites including former Marine Corps and Armory locations were listed in a memo to City Council members before an Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee meeting.