The last scheme between state agency and Gardaworld cost $ 1.3 million
Chicago – An empty match in Brighton Park once looked at thousands of migrants who just became more expensive.
In April, NBC 5 investigates was the first to agree to the city of Chicago to pay the owners of the vacancy at the age of 38one Street and California Avenue More than $ 816,000 to arrange a lawsuit that claimed that the city did not make any monthly lease payments for the use of the country.
A failed plan to accommodate a maximum of 2,000 migrants in Winteric Tents was deleted in December 2023 after the EPA of Illinois arrived in the midst of the release of an 800 -page environmental report that the levels of Kwik found and other toxic metals were present in the soil and air around the party.
The $ 816,506.67 that the city of Chicago has agreed to pay is at the top of $ 986,621.21 The city has already issued the city to remedy the environmental problems and prepare the country for the intended use.
Now NBC has learned 5 investigates that the lot taxpayers will cost even more – after a government agency has reached a legal settlement agreement with the security company Gardaworld, which founded winter -colored tents on the site before the plan was scrapped.
All in all, these recent legal settlements on this empty batch of taxpayers cost more than $ 3.1 million.
According to a copy of the settlement agreement in the Court of Claims obtained by NBC 5 investigates via a Freedom of Information ACT request, the Illinois Department of Human Services agrees that “a payment of $ 1.3 million is owed to Gardaworld for services provided at 38 at 38one and Californian site. The settlement was first reported by the Chicago Tribune earlier Tuesday.
Migrants who were initially reserved for the Gewintic ‘Basin Camp’ were later included in the city’s shelter system – which operated 27 hiding places in the city at the height in January 2024.
City data shows that the city of Chicago – via subsidies and direct taxpayers – has spent more than $ 600 million on migrant mission since August 2022.
“This is not really about money being spent inefficiently. I think it is more about the choices that are made,” said Anthony Moser, a environmental watchdog that closely followed the situation of Brighton Park Park.
Moser was one of the first to win state records that showed the history of fate as an industrial plot that goes back more than a century. He has also been critical of the The approach of the city and the state to meet both the housing needs for migrants and for old residents of Chicago.
“A lot of money was spent and it didn’t help anyone. It doesn’t leave us in a position where we can help someone. The only ones who get ahead here are the owners of a truck pot and Gardaworld.”
In an e -mail statement from the office of GOV. JB Pritzker wrote a spokesperson:
“Gardaworld was looking for payment based on his claim that she performed a considerable amount of work at the request of the State. The State negotiated and decided that claim in the Court of Claims.”
The Governor’s office would not provide any further details and send additional questions to the Illinois Department of Human Services.
NBC 5 Investigates also left messages for Gardaworld. They have not responded so far.
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