Nearly 100 asylum-seekers who made a home at a community-run shelter in Pilsen must leave the building by Sept. 3 due to a confluence of bad luck that includes a lack of funding and volunteers.
Officials learned last week of the fate of the building said Lucia Moya, chief of staff of Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, whose office initially helped to gather volunteers and stakeholders in the community to open the space as a shelter in May to relieve crowding at the 12th District police station on the Near West Side.News of the closure has raised frustrations among migrants who fear returning to police stations for shelter, but it wasn’t a total surprise.
Despite the grim news, volunteers worked to keep the shelter running, providing migrants with three meals a day and any resources possible, “but we simply can’t sustain it anymore,” Distefano said. The number of volunteers is significantly less than it was when the shelter opened. Many of the volunteers, including Distefano herself, are educators and can no longer assist during the day.
“I have no idea where we are going to go,” she said Tuesday afternoon as she sat outside the building in Pilsen. While many of the friends who stayed at the shelter had moved out, Padron said she and her partner remained because they’ve been unable to find affordable housing.Other migrants complained about the lack of order and maintenance to the building from those who oversaw it.
“We basically are doing their job,” Roldan said. “We are helping immigrants with housing, with meals, with medical care, with legal education and representation. I demand the city of Chicago to open their eyes, because they’re not prepared for these types of situations.”
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