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CHICAGO — Behind a thick black curtain at O’Hare International Airport where a security guard with a German shepherd stood watch, dozens of migrants sprawled on the hard tile floor, awaiting ...
More than 19,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since the first two buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrived at Union Station on Aug. 31, 2022. What began as a political stunt by Abbott to ...
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
Chicago is among 12 major cities that declared curfews in order to prevent looting and vandalism. [4] On May 31, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to send the Illinois National Guard to Chicago for the first time in the 52 years since the 1968 riots in Chicago. [5] The economic damage caused by the disturbances exceeded ...
“Our church is divided on the migrant crisis,” said the Rev. Chauncey Brown, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Maywood, Illinois, a majority-Black suburb of Chicago where some migrants are ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the city reopened Wadsworth last year to shelter hundreds of migrants, without seeking community input, it added insult to injury.
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson moved ahead Friday on his plan to close Chicago’s migrant shelters and fold them into the city’s existing system for homeless residents. The so-called “One ...
Chicago has been scrambling to find housing for the nearly 20,000 migrants who have arrived since August 2022, many in buses sent from the Mexican border by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.