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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

Woodlawn residents share deep frustrations as city outlines plans to open temporary shelter for asylum seekers in shuttered school

Dozens of community members attend a meeting Thursday night at Apostolic Church of God over the city’s plan to temporarily house new asylum seekers at the former Wadsworth Elementary School building in the Woodlawn neighborhood. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Keith White thinks it’s beautiful that Chicago officials are helping newly arrived asylum seekers, but he — like many others who crowded into the Apostolic Church of God on Thursday night — wanted to know what this will mean for Woodlawn residents.

He was among more than 100 residents who attended a more than two-hour community meeting that at times grew contentious as the city trickled out more information about the former James Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn that will be turned into a temporary shelter for new immigrants.

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