CHICAGO — Chicago was well underway with its plan to house Latin American migrants, but a recent environmental report on a proposed shelter location has unraveled it.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker ordered construction be halted on what would have been a migrant shelter able to house over 2,000 people. The shelter was being erected in the Brighton Park neighborhood, but the plan was suspended due to high levels of arsenic, lead and mercury on the proposed site.
