Hundreds Of Migrant Families Leaving City Colleges For Uptown’s American Islamic College – Block Club Chicago

About 300 people lived inside Wright College’s gym and atrium for the summer, and 400 stayed inside Daley College’s gym. It wasn’t immediately clear how many migrants have been moved to the Islamic center, which can house 500 to 600 people. The move was always part of the plan, since City Colleges students are set to return Aug. 24 and staff need to clean the building’s gym and atrium before then.
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Giddyap
2 years ago

Directly across Marine drive from Chicago’s newest ‘migrant’ shelter, Chicago homeless residents are living in tent encampment squalor.

Why is one group catered to and the other group ignored.

Pat S.
2 years ago
Reply to  Giddyap

Good darned question!

Resources for citizens are being given to illegal aliens while Chicago’s poor and homeless are ignored.

For shame!

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