Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson declined to endorse Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to transform the vacant South Shore High School into a shelter for immigrants. Instead, Johnson said he will consult with the South Shore community before any final decisions.
“What I favor, and what we will do day one, is to make sure that there is a real effort to coordinate our resources at the federal, state, county and city level,” Johnson said. “We are already in the process of developing that infrastructure.”
With the city’s shelters at capacity, dozens of men, women and children are being forced to sleep on the floor of police stations across the city while they wait for beds, officials said. Immigrants who arrived by plane are also sleeping at O’Hare International Airport. Harris, who endorsed Johnson’s rival Paul Vallas in last month’s mayoral election, was an ally of Lightfoot and is poised to retain her powerful perch as chair of the City Council’s Rules Committee after the mayor-elect takes office.
Taylor blamed Lightfoot for exacerbating tensions between Black and Latino Chicagoans by transforming a closed Chicago Public Schools building in a primarily Black neighborhood into a shelter for immigrants from Central and South America and adding an insult to the injury caused by the school’s closure.
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