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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 ...
CHICAGO (CBS)—The Gage Park Park District Fieldhouse reopened on Tuesday for summer activities after its programs were paused for a year to house asylum seekers. The fieldhouse, a community hub ...
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 (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 ...
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 — 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 ...
As a result, Chicago Park District programming would have been ... Knudtson said her concerns were mostly with how the field house could fit 200 migrants, but also the loss of resources for ...
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 ...