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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Gage Park field house to serve as respite center for hundreds of migrant men

The Gage Park fieldhouse, 2411 W. 55th St., which Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) offered as a respite center for up to 300 single migrant men now forced to sleep on police station floors. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times)

A Chicago Park District field house in the Southwest Side’s Gage Park neighborhood will be turned into a migrant respite center, possibly through the end of the year, for up to 300 single men now left to sleep on police station floors.

Last month, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) delayed, then opposed the city’s plan to use $51 million in surplus funds to slap a Band-Aid on Chicago’s migrant crisis.

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