The Brighton Park tent debacle has prompted pressure inside city government, as three aldermen call on seven city officials to resign over their handling of the migrant crisis. Alds. Anthony Beale (9th), Raymond Lopez (15th), and Anthony Napolitano (41st) sent the mayor a letter on Wednesday...
The mayor said the continuing migrant crisis is costing city government $1.5 million a day. Johnson and the City Council have budgeted only $150 million for the city's response to the migrant crisis for 2024, meaning funding will run out in April. The mayor has not said what the city pla...
The shift to the new system begins this week. Starting on Tuesday, only migrants who have been in the U.S. for 30 days or less will be eligible for placement in one of the 13 migrant shelters across the city, according to the mayor's office. The new system also will end the 60...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The City of Chicago is looking to make it easier for volunteers to help out new migrant arrivals. The New Neighbors Campaign was developed by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Rights; the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, and the ...
CBS 2's Sabrina Franza had the latest on Chicago's response to the migrant crisis. Chicago had to take $95 million in federal pandemic aid funds via the American Rescue Plan, sources said, to help cover staffing at migrant shelters. ...
Favi explained how Chicago plans to repurpose at least some of the infrastructure it created to respond to the migrant crisis. Officials have said they intend to use the existing shelter system to also support an overall anti-homelessness mission. ...
Triplett said regardless of the fact that the migrant crisis is had to happen for the proposal for a change in the system for the unhoused, the proposal is much welcome. "I think that sometimes, bad things have to happen for good things to happen. That's just life," she said. "I'...
Gov. Pritzker calls on President Biden to increase federal support for "overwhelming" migrant crisis CHICAGO (CBS) --Gov. JB Pritzker is calling on President Joe Biden to provide more federal funding to help the thousands of asylum seekers who have been brought to Chicago and to take over ...
CHICAGO (CBS)– The issue of the migrant crisis boiled over Thursday night in Chicago, as the city discussed plans toboard more migrants at a shuttered schoolin the South Shore neighborhood. As CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reported, an emotional – and at times intense – community meeting was ...
Pritzker said he agrees with Abbott that the nation needs immigration reform, but accused Abbott of having no interest in working on true bipartisan solutions to the migrant crisis. "Instead of advocating for that, you have chosen to sow chaos in an attempt to score politica...