The city of Chicago spent nearly $1 million to convert a Brighton Park lot into a migrant shelter before the controversial project was shut down this month by Gov. J.B. Pritzker over environmental ...

CHICAGO — Some southwest side residents are taking legal action against the city and Mayor Brandon Johnson over a proposed migrant camp site. As the city searches options to house migrants, several ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some Brighton Park families say they are tired of waiting for the city to clean up a site that was found to have cancer-causing chemicals. The neighborhood has now taken things in ...

Sofia Salinas’ home backs up to a vacant lot at 38th Street and California Avenue in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. When the city announced a plan to build a migrant camp on the lot, some ...

Almost two months after the city released an environmental report revealing elevated levels of harmful toxins at a proposed migrant camp on 38th Street and California Avenue, residents said city ...

A tense community meeting Tuesday night in Brighton Park illustrated the divide between residents on the city’s controversial plan to turn a site in the Southwest Side neighborhood into a tent shelter ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- In Spanish and English, people of Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood both revolted against and boisterously accepted the city's plan to place a massive winterized base camp for ...

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