City officials have said the priority for the base camps would be to relocate migrants who have been sleeping on the floors of police stations.
Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration has signed a $29.3 million contract with a private security firm to help set up"winterized base camps" of large military-style tents to help house hundreds of migrants, and get them out of police stations.
The contract does not include any specific locations for the tent encampments, but last week, Ald. Ronnie Mosley heldto discuss a proposal to turn an empty parking lot near 115th and Halsted into a base camp for up to 1,400 asylum seekers. The mayor hopes the base camps will solve overcrowding issues with migrants living at Chicago police stations.The GardaWorld contract includes diagrams of the layouts for rows of soft-sided, rectangular,"yurt style" tents that can house 12 people each. The tents would include 12 cots capable of holding up to 500 pounds, and foot lockers for each cot.
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