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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

City signs lease for site of potential Brighton Park migrant tent camp — leaving local alderperson ‘frustrated and disappointed’

About a dozen community members protest near a city owned lot at 38th Street and California Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood last month. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file)

The city of Chicago has signed a $91,400-a-month deal to lease the land in the Southwest Side’s Brighton Park neighborhood where officials say they plan to build the first of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s migrant tent cities.

The deal to lease the land at 38th Street and California Avenue was signed Oct. 26, according to a copy of the lease agreement — before an environmental assessment of the former industrial site was completed.

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