City Clerk Cancels Mobile City Hall Events Amid Crush of Demand for M…

Video: City Clerk Anna Valencia joins “Chicago Tonight” to discuss CityKey IDs, Mobile City Hall events and more. (Produced by Emily Soto)

It will be much more difficult for migrants sent to Chicago from the southern border to get a municipal identification card before the end of the year after City Clerk Anna Valencia canceled the remaining events designed to bring City Hall into the city’s neighborhoods.

More than 1,000 people – mostly migrants – lined up hours before the city clerk’s event on Oct. 12 at Gill Park in Wrigleyville was scheduled to start, overwhelming the 15-person staff, Valencia told WTTW News.

“It was too much to manage,” Valencia said. “You don’t know what’s going to happen when you have that kind of crowd. It didn’t seem like it would be a safe event.”

Valenica said she made the final decision to cancel the Oct. 12 event – before anyone got an ID – after consulting with the Chicago Police Department brass and leaders of the…