Mayor Brandon Johnson opened the Roseland Health Hub Wednesday, a major step in his effort to expand Chicago’s bricks-and-mortar mental health system. Johnson cut the ribbon at the the long-shuttered clinic surrounded by many of the same activists who led the decade-long charge to reopen a dozen city-run mental health centers closed by past mayors.

"We hope that this will be more than a clinic," Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday at the Roseland East 115th Street Health Hub, but "a gathering space that will foster health and wellness."

The city is increasing its program enabling mental health professionals to respond to emergency calls, Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Simbo Ige said the Roseland Health Hub will provide no-cost mental health, vaccinations and sexual health services even as the City expands its police-free response to people having mental health emergencies.

There was a ribbon cutting Wednesday morning to celebrate the reopening of the former Roseland Mental Health Clinic.