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Tempers flare at community meeting on migrant shelter opening in Chicago hotel

The Lake Shore Hotel on Aug. 30, 2023, in Chicago.

CHICAGO -- Residents of three South Side lakefront communities demanded information from city staff and elected officials Wednesday night about a soon-to-be reestablished migrant shelter off DuSable Lake Shore Drive.

The meeting at the Promontory restaurant days ahead of the shelter’s planned opening was the latest in a string of tense neighborhood forums in which residents have pushed back on hosting migrants in shuttered high schools and other city buildings.

The Lake Shore Hotel, located on the 4900 block of South Lake Shore Drive, hosted migrants

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