CHICAGO — Questions remain after dozens of migrants in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood were forced out into the cold just one day before Christmas Eve.
City personnel converged on a large South Shore apartment building located at 74th and South Phillips on Monday, Dec. 23, with a heavy presence of Chicago Police officers. According to spokespeople for the office of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, the migrants were evacuated due to unsafe conditions.
Community members who spoke with WGN News complained that the operation was both chaotic and heavy-handed.
“I saw groups of children, ladies with newborns in their arms,” said one person who did not wish to be identified. “With children? They can’t even get their coats out of their apartment?”
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Warming buses and the Salvation Army were among various city agencies on hand to support the removal, but migrants say they weren’t given adequate notice.
“I have two small children,” a migrant father told WGN News. “One is two years old and the other is three. And I don’t have anywhere to go.”