CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Chicago man has opened his multi-unit building in the South Shore neighborhood to migrants.
He’s Chris Amatore, CEO of Manage Chicago, a property management company.
"I was working at my house in my basement one day, and it was like 9 in the morning - and someone's ringing my doorbell, and it was four Venezuelan migrants," said Amatore.
He told CBS 2 he visited with migrants staying at the what the city calls the Landing Zone, where the busses are supposed to make drop-offs, and offered housing. Amatore also said that the migrants didn't have a way to shower and were eating out of garbage cans.
Now, 56 asylum-seekers have a place to stay. Johnson Aguilarte is one of the migrants who is living in Amatore's building. He is hoping to send money back to his family in Venezuela.
Amatore may open a second multi-unit building to them. More than 34,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago via buses from Texas since 2022, according to the City of Chicago.
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