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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Johnson’s tent city plan legal, ‘but that doesn’t make it a good idea’

An asylum seeker encampment, shown earlier this month in an empty lot next to the 12th District police station at South Blue Island Avenue and West 15th St. in the Little Italy neighborhood. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Advocates for migrants and human rights want a lot more answers to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to use huge tents to house migrants.

Among their questions: Where will they go? Will they really handle a Chicago winter? What sort of rights and resources will people have?

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