Migrants moved out of police station near fest

In advance of Lollapalooza — the music festival that will bring hundreds of thousands of people to Grant Park this weekend — more than 100 migrants have been moved out of 1st District police station on the Near South Side.

Dozens were put on city-run buses to the Broadway Armory in Edgewater, among the first to be lodged there after it opened as a shelter for asylum-seekers Tuesday morning. Chicago sanitation workers threw away what the migrants left behind at the police station into a garbage truck — mattresses, children’s backpacks, shopping carts filled with food, rugs and clothing.

Migrants were told by police officers on Thursday that they needed to leave the station for “an event,” said Brayan Lozano Guzmán, who helps coordinate volunteer efforts at the station. Guzmán worked in the immigration sphere for five years in his native Colombia before coming to the U.S., he said.

The 1st District police station — which has typically housed more asylum-seekers than…