The city signed a land use contract at the Brighton Park site of a proposed migrant base camp, but says the site is not yet confirmed.
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 the site is only under consideration and is not yet the confirmed location for a migrant base camp.
No one is caught off guard or by surprise,” he said. “We live in Chicago. We got to get people out of police stations. People cannot sleep outside. They can’t be on the floors at airports.” Anthony Moser, a founding member of the nonprofit group Neighbors for Environmental Justice, requested records from the city related to the site over a week ago because of “a lack of a paper trail” at the site where construction was already underway.
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