Chicago’s push to house migrants in a closed school is upsetting neighbors in a South Side community
CHICAGO—Residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood on this city’s South Side waged a losing fight last decade to save Wadsworth Elementary School, an imposing brick building that had long served as a center of their community.
When they learned that the old school building was being reopened—as a shelter to house migrants—some said it felt like another insult by the city.
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