The 'respite center' in Little Village's Piotrowski Park is expected to handle about 200 people.
-- Just hours after opening a new center to care for migrants on Saturday, organizers say they'll already need more space.
The"respite center" in Little Village's Piotrowski Park in the 24th Ward is expected to handle about 200 people. The migrants at Piotrowski Park were previously waiting in area police district lobbies. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells us he's seen neighbors stop by to help for a shelter in his 25th Ward. Organizations and churches are stepping up. This site has showers and activities for children.
Sigcho-Lopez said says Little Village has been a port of entry for generations, but this crisis brings new challenges that require state and federal funding. "We had streets and sanitation, [office of emergency management] has come through the site to make sure that we took every precaution and all the necessary steps to make this a sustainable and safe emergency shelter," Sigcho-Lopez said of the shelter in his ward. He said the office of emergency management did a site tour Wednesday, but no decisions will be made until Brandon Johnson's sworn in on Monday.
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