In what might as well be as pertinent a sign of the times as any, a long-closed KMart store in Chicago is about to be opened as a migrant shelter. And the Community isn’t happy.
The 96,000-square-foot store on Chicago’s South Side has been vacant for ages but apparently not for much longer if Chicago has anything to say about it. Soon, it will be hosting about 600 of the thousands of migrants that have arrived in the city during the past several months, many of them shipped there by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, who had more than he could handle.
Chicago is already incurring similar Community-related opposition resulting from its re-purposing of a vacant elementary school in the Woodlawn neighborhood. That school-cum-shelter plan raised the Community’s hackles earlier this month when the school re-opened as a migrant shelter. Community members blocked the entrance to the property to prevent migrant-loaded buses from unloading their cargo, and police had to be called.
One Community member addressed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot at the time, saying, “There is a lack of resources in our community, we don’t need anyone else to come in and suck those up.”
That shelter opened, but the KMart building has yet to be occupied, considering the pushback the school plan aroused. One local resident complained, “I have major concerns for the safety of the local community and the people who will be housed at this location.”
The bankrupt KMart corporation, which once boasted more than 2,000 outlets, has closed all but three in the United States in a national retail meltdown. And that means there are lots and lots of abandoned properties nationwide just waiting for Biden’s charges to come in and take possession. Of course, if the illegals are as picky as New York’s have proved to be, they may decide to hold out for something a bit trendier, say, Target.
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