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.

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

"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."

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