Sunday, September 24, 2023

Cook County backs spending about $14 million to buy two suburban hotels for the unhoused

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
For now, the county would spend about $7 million in federal pandemic dollars to buy the Margarita Inn in Evanston. An organization called Connections for the Homeless has leased the building since 2021 and run a shelter there with 46 rooms. People stay on average around seven months.

Federal money to move the migrants to the suburbs! The Margaria Inn is within walking distance of where Jan Schakowsky lives.