Organizers try to calm chaos at a South Side Home Depot where migrants look for work

In recent weeks, Luciana Diaz has been spending most time outside the Home Depot on west 87th Street in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. The Venezuelan native isn’t looking for work, like dozens of other migrants there daily. She is trying to ease rising tensions between the new arrivals and security guards, who want them off store property, as well as local residents who say they are intimidated by the presence of the migrants.

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