The city of Chicago has spent more than $100 million to provide help and services to thousands of migrants that have arrived in Chicago from south of the U.S. border since last August, officials said.
Migrants look out the window as they ride a CTA bus leaving the High Ridge YMCA shelter to be transferred to Daley College on June 13, 2023.
Wednesday’s committee meeting was the first time such specific numbers were released by the city since Chicago’s migrant crisis began 10 months ago, when the first busload of asylum-seekers departed from Texas under the direction of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Since then, more than 10,500 new arrivals have come to the city, prompting tense debates among local officials and communities over how to best help the migrants while working with limited resources.
There are currently a dozen shelters operating in buildings spanning the city: Wright College in Dunning, the former Wadsworth Elementary in Woodlawn, The Standard Club in the Loop, Inn of Chicago on the Near North Side, Leone Beach field house in Rogers Park, Piotrowski Park in South Lawndale, Brands Park in Avondale, North Park Village in North Park, the YMCA in West Ridge, Young Women’s Leadership Charter School in Douglas, Daley College in Ford City and the Gage Park field house in Gage...
Previous plans for migrant facilities — at South Shore High School, Calumet High School, Dett Elementary School and Hope House — are “on hold,” the memo says. Amid the money woes, Johnson’s administration has also contended with reports of moldy food and other poor living conditions at the city shelters, which he responded to by blaming Abbott and other Republican governors of border states, as well as his predecessor Lori Lightfoot, for allowing the need in Chicago to become this acute.
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