As construction on the first winterized tent camp for migrants gets underway in Chicago, the city is abandoning plans to house hundreds of asylum seekers in the fieldhouse of a West Side park.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A park district fieldhouse in Chicago won't become a shelter for migrants after all. People who live in the Galewood community fought hard against the loss of programming and ...

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times Share A Chicago Park District field house in the Southwest Side’s Gage Park neighborhood will be turned into a migrant respite center, possibly through ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Amid vocal protests from neighbors upset with efforts to turn the Amundsen Park fieldhouse into a new shelter for migrants, the local alderman said the city has put those plans ...

CHICAGO — On Saturday, community leaders and residents gathered on the Far South Side for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Chicago Park District fieldhouse honoring baseball great Jackie ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --In the last few days ... of families with children who are arriving to the city." Leone Beach Park field house is being reopened for use as a waiting facility for asylum seekers ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A rendering shows the main entrance of the new Jackie Robinson Park field house. Chicago Park District Share Construction of a new field house at Jackie ...

Monique Scott, 24th, left, and Rosa Escareño, general superintendent and CEO of the Chicago Park District, at the Douglass Park community engagement forum at the Douglass Park Fieldhouse.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Gage Park Fieldhouse reopens to the public Monday. Last year, summer camps at the fieldhouse were suspended to accommodate migrants. That move was met by strong opposition ...