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“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 — 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 ...
The humanitarian crisis surrounding the 45,700 asylum-seekers who have so far made their way to Chicago since 2022, mostly via bus from Texas under the direction of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...
412 people have been murdered in Chicago so far in 2024 but she said less, not more, is being done to curb black-on-black violence. “I can’t even reach nobody at City Hall or anywhere else ...
"This migrant crisis has made many people go: ‘Wait a minute, no it doesn’t.’” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson declined to comment for this story. The city received more than $200 million from the state and federal government to help care for migrants after Johnson appealed to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and President Joe Biden.
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 ...
The 2020 Census results showed that the Black population of Chicago had slipped to 788,000, while the Latino population had risen to 820,000, marking the first census in which Latino residents outnumbered Black residents in Chicago - with potentially major implications for Black political power in the city as formerly comfortably Black-majority ...
CHICAGO — After months of postponing shelter evictions for migrants, Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down last week on Sunday’s deadline to remove migrants who had surpassed the 60-day limit.