City should be more transparent on cleanup of Brighton Park migrant tent site

Workers can be seen at a site where the city plans to set up winterized base camps to house up to 1,500 migrants at South California Avenue and West 38th Street in the Brighton Park community. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

There’s no reason why there should be so much mystery and so many unanswered questions around the city’s plan to build a tent camp for migrants on a former industrial site in Brighton Park.

But as crews this week begin preparing the 11-acre parcel to accept enough winterized tents to house up to 2,000 migrants, the neighborhood’s alderperson, the public and the asylum-seekers themselves are still in the dark about the environmental cleanliness of the site.