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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Fran Spielman

City Council members decry ‘lawlessness’ outside migrant shelters

Council Jeanette Taylor City Council Brendan Reilly Cristina PacioneZayas
Asylum-seekers step out of buses at Richard J. Daley College in June. Migrants who had been housed there and at Wright College are now being. moved to American Islamic College, 640 W. Irving Park Road. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

City Council members on Wednesday decried the “lawlessness” — including sex trafficking and drug dealing — occurring outside Chicago’s migrant shelters and demanded a crackdown before the behavior devolves into violence.

Education Committee Chair Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th) represents the impoverished Woodlawn neighborhood where 584 migrants are staying in the former Wadsworth Elementary School.

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