Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team eyeing Wright College as shelter for migrant families

A gymnasium at Wright College, pictured here in a community meeting in 2015, could soon host 400 newly arrived asylum seekers, officials said. (Sun-Times file)

Four hundred asylum seekers could be housed at Wilbur Wright College starting June 1 — and remain on the Northwest Side campus until Aug. 1 — to minimize the need for migrant families to sleep on the floors of Chicago police stations, a top mayoral aide said Friday.

Rich Guidice, Mayor Brandon’s Johnson’s chief of staff, said Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett Ave., is under serious consideration as a new respite center to “alleviate some of the pressure on the police stations.”