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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Brighton Park migrant tent site construction blocked by protesters: ‘Show me the permit; I’m ready to go to jail.’

Protesters on Monday block the entrance into a planned site for a Brighton Park tent shelter that could initially house 500 migrants before expanding to house 2,000. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

More than 10 construction trucks were ready to enter the city’s chosen migrant tent site in Brighton Park on Monday before protesters from the neighborhood stopped them from proceeding.

About a dozen protesters planted themselves at the entrance of the site at 38th Street and California Avenue, demanding a copy of an environmental assessment of the lot and of construction work permits authorizing building to begin on a space intended to house migrants.

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