McCormick Place, Navy Pier or shuttered big-box stores should be used to house asylum seekers descending on Chicago, instead of “playing whack-a-mole” and inconveniencing multiple Chicago neighborhoods, an influential alderperson said this week.
“We need central locations. We need large spaces. We could better utilize our staffing time if we knew we had a large space,” said Ald. Maria Hadden, whose 49th Ward on the Far North Side lakefront is home to Leone Beach House, a Chicago Park District facility that has been used to house single male asylum-seekers off and on since last fall.
