300 migrants to be housed at shuttered Catholic church on Northwest Side
St. Bartholomew School, 4941 W. Patterson Ave. in Portage Park.
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A shuttered church in Portage Park will serve as a new migrant family shelter, the city announced Friday.
The Archdiocese of Chicago will lease St. Bartholomew Catholic Church at no cost — months after church officials offered to house new arrivals rent-free at the church, which closed last year. In turn, the city will sub-lease the building to the Zakat Foundation... Читать дальше...