A 5-year-old boy living in a temporary shelter for migrants in Chicago died after suffering a medical emergency. The boy’s death has sparked community organizers’ concerns about the conditions at the shelters and how Chicago is responding to an influx of people unaccustomed to the city’s cold winters and with few local contacts.
Chicago and other northern U.S. cities have struggled to find housing for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers who have been bused from Texas since the start of the year, with months of cold weather looming. Earlier this month, hundreds of asylum-seekers still awaited placement at airports and police stations in Chicago, some of them still camped on sidewalks outside precinct buildings.
Annie Gomberg, a volunteer with the city’s Police Station Response Team, said that about 2,300 people have been staying at the shelter where the boy was living. She suspects part of the reason for tight security is so the public cannot see how the shelters are being run. The people who live inside the shelters are coming to them and asking for blankets, clothing, bottles, and diapers.
Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, 5, was living at a Pilsen migrant shelter with his family when he experienced a medical emergency Sunday, according to the mayor’s office. He was rushed to Comer Children’s Hospital where we died. The child’s autopsy is still pending. City officials say the child and his family arrived in Chicago on November 30.
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Jean Carlos Martinez, a resident at a shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, suffered a medical emergency and died shortly after arriving at Comer Children’s Hospital. Mayor Brandon Johnson said city officials are providing support to the family and are still gathering information on the tragedy. City officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether the conditions at the shelter played a role in the child’s death.
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