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Liberal Chicago Suburb of Evanston Wants $20M Grant to Make Abandoned Office Building a Migrant Shelter
Breitbart ^ | 04/06/2024 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/07/2024 12:48:04 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The mayor of the ultra-liberal, near-north Chicago suburb of Evanston wants to apply for a slice of a $20 million county grant to turn an abandoned office building in his city into a new migrant shelter in a bid to help take migrants off the hands of officials in Chicago.

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss (D) announced his intention to apply to Cook County’s recently created $100 million-dollar “disaster response and recovery” fund, of which $20 million is set aside for migrants, to help him rehab an empty office building near Church Street and Oak Avenue. Biss wants to turn the building into a new migrant transition center and shelter that could house more than 60 illegal border crossers, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; evanston; office; shelter; suburb
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To: Captainpaintball
I would just move far away...middle America someplace in a solid red state.....

the cities and their rats are going to destroy you...high taxes, rape, assault, murder, constant crime and constant thievery....

21 posted on 04/07/2024 4:45:22 PM PDT by cherry
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who owns the hotel, who will gain from the $20 mil?


22 posted on 04/07/2024 5:50:33 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan ( )
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