TOGETHER.

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOGETHER.

WE CAN DRIVE CHANGE.

>> CITY OFFICIALS WERE MET WITH ANGER AND FRUSTRATION AT LAST NIGHT'S COMMUNITY MEETING AMID A PLAN TO CONVERT THE AHMANSON PARK FIELD HOUSE INTO A MIGRANT SHELTER.

WEST SIDE RESIDENTS EXPRESSED CONCERNS FOR CURRENT PROGRAMMING AT THE FIELD HOUSE AND THE SHORT NOTICE IT MARKS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF CONTENTIOUS COMMUNITY MEETINGS ACROSS THE CITY AS OFFICIALS WORK TO FIND HOUSING FOR THE INFLUX OF THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS SENT FROM THE BORDER.

JOINING US WITH REACTION ON THIS AND MORE ARE SERENA SMITH MEMBERS, PRESIDENT OF THE QUINCY STRONG BLOCK CLUB AND AN AUSTIN RESIDENT.

CHERYL MILLER, HEALTH JUSTICE ORGANIZER OF SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER, ORGANIZING FOR POWER, KNOWN AS STOP AND ALDERMAN CHRIS TALIAFERRO OF THE 20TH WARD, WHICH INCLUDES PARTS OF AUSTIN, MONTCLAIR AND BELMONT CRAIGAN.

THANKS TO ALL 3 OF YOU FOR JOINING US.

ALDERMAN WANT TO START WITH YOU, PLEASE.

BECAUSE THE AHMANSON PARK FIELD HOUSE IS IN YOUR WARD.

WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THIS PLAN?

YOU CAN.

WHEN I FIRST ABOUT HEARD ABOUT IT, BRANDIES AT, YOU IN FROM THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF THAT THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN.

THEN.

>> I STRONGLY OBJECTED TO IT.

THERE WAS NO PROCESS WHATSOEVER.

FOR ME TO ENGAGE FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO ENGAGE WITH THE RESIDENTS OF THE AUSTIN COMMUNITY AND PARTICULARLY IN THAT AREA ON PARK.

SO I WAS OUTRAGE AND I JOIN THE COMMUNITY AND THEIR FIGHT TO KEEP THIS FIELD HOUSE OPEN.

>> WE MENTIONED THAT WAS VERY SHORT NOTICE AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT A WESTSIDE RESIDENT WHO EXPRESSED HER CONCERNS OUTSIDE OF AMUNDSEN PARK LAST NIGHT.

>> WHEN THERE'S A LACK OF COMMUNICATION, THERE'S DICTATORSHIP AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

IT MAKE US LOOK LIKE WE DON'T CARE IF THE PEOPLE AND WE DO.

BUT THE PROBLEM IS WHEN YOU WORK ALL YOUR LIFE IN THIS CITY AND YOU WROTE AND YOU RETIRE, THEN YOU HAVE AN AUDI WHICH IS EUROPE HAD DISTRICT.

THEN YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT.

WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUFFER.

WE ACT AND ACT TAX PARKS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

>> CERTAINLY THIS MONTH MEMBERS WHO LIVE IN THIS COMMUNITY AS WELL.

WHAT IS THIS FIELDHOUSE MEAN TO THE COMMUNITY?

>> PROMISE.

AND RIGHT NOW WE'LL JUST SPEAKING OF THE BLACK PART OF THE AUSTIN COMMUNITY ON THE SOUTH IN AUSTIN.

I'M A RESIDENT AND A CONSTITUENT OF ALL OF US HOW THE PHARAOH.

>> IT MEANS SO MUCH SO THAT PART OF THAT COMMUNITY AND ALSO THE SOUTH SIDE BECAUSE IT HAS SO MANY PROGRAMS FOR NOT JUST OUR YOUTH >> MOTHERS, OUR PARENTS, OUR SENIORS, AND THAT COMMUNITY IS PREDOMINANTLY HOME OWNERSHIP.

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THERE FOR YEARS.

THEY'VE INVESTED THEIR OWN MONEY AND TIME INTO THAT PART BY AIR CONDITIONERS, PROVIDING UNIFORMS FOR THE THE KIDS PROGRAMS, AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS THAT COLUMBUS PARK DOESN'T HAP WHAT I'M CLOSE TO MY DAUGHTER GOES OVER TO THAT PART.

JUST THE ONE THAT TRACK IT'S SAFER THAN COLUMBUS PARK, WHICH IS NOW A HOMELESS TENT SHELTER FOR A LOT OF OUR VETERANS IN CHICAGO.

HOMELESS PEOPLE.

SO THAT PARK IS A HUB TO THE AUSTIN BLACK AUSTIN COMMUNITY.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE GO TO VOTE IT AS WELL TO ELECT DALEK THAT OFFICIALS SO MEANS A LOT TO THE COMMUNITY WAS A LOT.

>> I'M CHERYL MILLER.

WE SAW SIMILAR COMMUNITY REACTION IN WOODLAWN WHEN UNDER THE LIGHTFOOT ADMINISTRATION THERE'S AN ATTEMPT CONVERT WADSWORTH ELEMENTARY.

THE FORMER WADSWORTH ELEMENTARY INTO A SHELTER FOR THE NEW ARRIVALS.

WHY DO YOU THINK WE'RE SEEING THIS?

THE FROM THE COMMUNITIES WHEN THIS HAPPENS?

>> WELL, AND IN TERMS WANTS WORSE, PEOPLE THERE A LOT OF CONCERN BECAUSE COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR FORCED TO THE TURNED A COMMUNITY CENTER.

IT WAS VERY UNPOPULAR.

RAHM EMANUEL'S DECISION TO CLOSE LOTS EARTH WAS A VERY UNPOPULAR SO I AND I THINK THAT.

THE WAY THE SET UP IS PEOPLE DO END UP BEING PITTED COMMUNITIES, END UP BEING PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER AROUND ISSUES OF RESOURCES.

>> ALDERMAN, WHAT ARE YOU NOW HEARING FROM MAYOR JOHNSON AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ON THIS FOR A MONTH AND PARK FIELD HOUSE?

>> WHY?

I THINK THE THE MAYOR HAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESPONSIBILITY THEY ARE.

AND WHEN I SAY TODAY THAT THE MIGRANTS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE BECOMING TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO, IN FACT, I BELIEVE THERE WERE 12 BUSES TODAY.

AND IF YOU LOOK MULTIPLY THAT BY 50 AND THEN WE'RE GETTING ON AVERAGE 40 TO 50 BUSES EVERY WEEK.

THE MAYOR HAS A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY IN.

I REMEMBER BRIDGES AND I'LL SAY THIS VERY QUICKLY.

WHEN I MY FIRST CHILD WAS BORN.

MY WIFE AND I AND NO IDEA ON HOW TO BE PARENTS OTHER THAN WHAT WE READ.

AND WE TOOK A CHILD HOME WONDERING, OK, WHAT NEXT?

IN THE SAME WAY, MAYOR JOHNSON HAS A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY IN CARING FOR FOLKS THAT COME INTO CHICAGO, NOT ONLY JUST CARING FOR THEM, BUT THEIR SAFETY.

THERE WILL BE IN THEIR SECURITY.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAVE TO HAVE A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS ABOUT UTILIZING PUBLIC SPACES TO HOUSE THEM IN TO SHELTER HIM.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT.

A VALUABLE RESOURCE FROM ONE COMMUNITY.

A COMMUNITY THAT RICHLY DESERVES THAT RESOURCE.

TO GIVE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE.

SO I I UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSIBILITY UNDERSTAND THE COMPASSION AND HOW WE MUST LEAD WITH COMPASSION.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE ARE A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY WHERE DEMOCRACY RULES AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING OUR COMMUNITY INVOLVED AND HOW WE MOVE.

>> THIS IS OUR LAND.

AND HOW DO YOU THINK THE CITY COULD BATTLE BETTER HANDLE CARING FOR THE MIGRANTS WITHOUT CREATING THE SENSE OF DIVISION THAT THAT COMMUNITIES ARE EXPERIENCING.

CREATING A SENSE OF DIVISION.

IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WANT TO CREATE RIOT SIMILAC COMMUNITIES AMONG RACE RACE RIOTS BECAUSE YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF.

INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR PEOPLE TO.

LET'S BE CLEAR THERE.

PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING HERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BETTER IN THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM.

WHEN THE PEOPLE HERE IN THESE COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY'RE PUTTING THE MIGRANTS, IT DON'T EVEN HAVE A CHANCE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM ANY LONGER.

>> THEY'VE RAISED OUR PROPERTY TAXES.

THEY HAVE RAISED OUR FUEL, OUR GROCERIES, THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS A FOOD DESERT.

LET'S BE CLEAR.

THEY CLOSE SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS IN THE LAST 50 SCHOOL CLOSING.

THE ALDERMEN KNOWLES.

CRIME IS RAMPANT IN THE 20TH WARD.

A LOT OF THE NUMBERS THAT YOU HEAR, SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT THAT THAT THAT ARE NOT BEING REPORTED BECAUSE THE POLICE DON'T SHOW UP TO THE CRIME.

THEY'RE BEING BABYSITTERS RIGHT NOW IN THE 15TH DISTRICT TO SO WATCHING JUST OVER C MIGRANTS.

THE RESOURCES WAS THE CALL TO POLICE FOR OUR BASICS.

CITIES AND SAFETY IS NO LONGER THERE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN, IF THEY CONTINUE TO TAKE RESOURCES FROM ANY MORE COMMUNITIES BECAUSE THE LATINO COMMUNITY DON'T EVEN WANT THE MIGRANTS THERE.

THEY'RE PITTING PEOPLE AGAINST PEOPLE FO THE B BARE MINIMUM.

WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ALREADY IN THE GOING TO CONTINUE TO RAISE OUR TAXES AND PUT IT ON THE BACKBONE OF THE CHICAGO ONCE.

GIVE US WHAT WE DESERVE.

WE NEED MORE CITY SERVICES.

WE NEED COPS.

AND WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IS PUT THEM DOWNTOWN.

AND IN THE OLD FEDERAL BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET FROM CITY HALL WHERE THE MAYOR AND HIS WHOLE TEAM WHO SEEMS TO HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT'S GOING ON AND THAT INVOLVE ANY BY PUTTING ACROSS THE STREET, YOU KNOW, 500 MILLION BACK FROM JB PRITZKER TO FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

CHERYL MILLER, HOW DO YOU THINK THE CITY SHOULD BE HANDLED US ALL ONE?

I THINK >> THE CITY HAS ALONG GOVERNOR PRITZKER HAS STARTED TO MAKE DEMANDS ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST DO MORE.

AMOUNT THAT THE THE ADMINISTRATION IS GIVEN TOWARDS REALLY RESOLVING THIS IS NOT IT'S NOT ENOUGH.

AND I'M ALSO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT PRIOR VENEZUELANS CALMING.

THERE ARE COMMON.

THERE'S ACTUALLY A MOVEMENT IN VENEZUELA, THE RIGHT TO STAY.

WE NEED THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION COULD IN THIS CRISIS BY LETTING UP ON SANCTIONS THAT ARE DESTROYING VENEZUELA AND FOR SAYING PEOPLE OUT.

SO I THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED TO PUSH ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MAKING THE CHANGES THAT NEED TO HAPPEN AND AND GIVING US THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED TO HANDLE WHAT'S HAPPENING AS WELL AS THE STATE GOVERNMENT.

THAT ALDERMAN WE KNOW THE MAYOR HAS SIGNED A 29 MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT TO BUILD THE SO-CALLED TENT CITY TO HOUSE MIGRANTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY LIVING IN POLICE STATIONS.

>> DO YOU THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT MOVE?

WHAT WHAT COULD THE CITY BE TAILING VETERAN DIFFERENTLY?

RANDY'S?

THAT'S JUST WHERE WE ARE.

>> YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING SO MANY MIGRANTS ESPECIALLY GOING ON OUR WINTER MONTHS VERY SOON.

WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTION.

I DISAGREE WITH USING TENSE, BUT THAT MAY BE THE ONLY SOLUTION THAT'S AVAILABLE TO US.

AND THAT'S HEATED YURTS OR HEATED TENTS.

AND SO IT'S A MATTER OF NECESSITY AT THIS POINT.

WE DON'T HAVE THE PUBLIC FACILITIES TO HOUSE A MAN UNLESS WE CLOSE DOWN EVERY SINGLE SUPPORT THAT CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT.

SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE JUST AS NEW YORK HANDS WE ARE MOVING OUT OF NECESSITY RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY WITH 3 OR 4 MONTHS AWAY FROM EXTREME COLD WEATHER.

WHERE DO WE PUT THEM?

IN THE MEANTIME?

>> OKAY.

I'M SURE THAT IS THE SEVERAL 100 MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION THAT THE CITY OF