As migrants move into shelters, surrounding communities respond: ‘They have value’
against the city to stop the use of a shuttered high school there as a temporary respite center.
The Woodlawn shelter was intended to accommodate 250 people when it opened, but Rojas and other migrants told the Tribune there are at least double that inside. Rojas said there are not enough bathrooms and people often have to wait in long lines. This is the new normal for cities around the country dealing with record levels of border crossings as city officials have turned to homeless shelters, hotels, churches and
“It’s going to be a shock,” said a man who was tending to his plot at 62nd Street Community Garden on Monday a few blocks from the Wadsworth shelter. “It’s going to be an adjustment. But we came here in this life to learn from each other.”Resident Nijah Stuckey, 21, said she knew people who graduated from Wadsworth, but she didn’t know the school was being used to shelter migrants. She can see the old school from her house, she said.
On a cool Thursday afternoon last week, men lined up outside the shelter, waiting with cash for a haircut. As Kennis Inpante, 25, pulled an electric shaver from his backpack, he said he was a graphic designer in Venezuela but liked to cut hair as a hobby. He’s given almost 250 haircuts, he said, $15 each.
“And then all of a sudden, you know, these are the only communities, these are the only places that are big enough to hold shelters, right?” she asked. Paula Gean, right, talks with Benji Hart, left, as migrants and members of the community play soccer near the former Wadsworth Elementary School in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood on May 14, 2023.
University of Chicago students and Venezuela migrants play soccer near the former Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn on May 14, 2023. On a gray Mother’s Day last weekend, over 40 residents, migrants and students from University of Chicago gathered to play.
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