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Number of migrants in Chicago shelters fall to lowest level in months
As of this week, there were only about 5,800 people living in one of the city and state's 17 shelter locations. At the peak last January, there were nearly 15,000.
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As of this week, there were only about 5,800 people living in one of the city and state's 17 shelter locations. At the peak last January, there were nearly 15,000.
The number of people living in Chicago's migrant shelters is at one of its lowest points since new arrivals first began to arrive in the city.
The shelter at Daley College opened in June 2023, and housed as many as 415 migrants by July 2023. As of last week, 56 migrants were living there.
Officials say the human smuggling network in question has ties to the same one that brought a group of Uzbek nationals across the southern border last summer.
Gov. JB Pritzker's Office said the two shelters will collectively be able to house up to nearly 2,000 people.
Two new state-supported shelters will open to house hundreds of migrants in Chicago. One shelter is near Midway International Airport, and the other will be in Hyde Park.
Demand for hot food items alongside Grant Park has not stopped in the face of the heat. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
Downtown Chicago was bustling with people Monday, and there was plenty of demand for people brave enough to work in the heat. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
Downtown Chicago was bustling with people Monday, and there was plenty of demand for people brave enough to work in the heat.
A 60-day shelter limit is being enforced on Chicago shelters for asylum seekers despite adequate space. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza asked city Deputy Mayor for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Beatriz Ponce De León why.
CBS 2 on Friday talked with City Deputy Mayor for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Beatriz Ponce De León.
The City of Chicago this week started telling some migrant families with children they had to leave city-run shelters—despite fewer than half of the beds in city shelters currently being used. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza on Friday talked with City Deputy Mayor for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Beatriz Ponce De León about why this is happening, and what happens next.
The City of Chicago is executing its 60-day shelter stay policy, offering to reprocess any asylum seeker who asks to reenter the shelter system.
The City of Chicago is executing its 60-day shelter stay policy, offering to reprocess any asylum seeker who asks to reenter the shelter system. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
The new shelter is a collaboration between the City of Chicago and the Archdiocese of Chicago – which is lending the St. Bartholomew buildings at no cost to the city.
While the number of arrivals has slowed, it has not stopped. A new shelter at St. Bartholomew Parish in Portage Park will be tending to that need, as CBS 2's Marybel Gonzalez reports.
Simone Peña is one of around 400,000 undocumented immigrants, experts said, who are in Illinois waiting for documentation.
CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports that activists in Chicago are working to speed up the process to process more people. The majority of them had been here for years before this latest immigration surge.
President Joe Biden’s plan would allow the quick deportation of thousands of migrants. CBS 2’s Marybel Gonzalez reports on how it might affect asylum seekers in Chicago.
CBS 2's Andrew Ramos reports last year, the city was scrambling to house arriving migrants, so it turned to the Park District, which converted some of its buildings, like Gage Park, into temporary emergency shelters.
The order means immigration officials can deport migrants at the border. without processing their asylum claims, once the number of border crossings goes over 2,500 a day. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
The executive action authorizes U.S. immigration officials to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims.
Mr. Biden's executive order authorizing deportations at the border will not affect asylum seekers who are already in Chicago – but there could indeed be changes in Chicago moving forward. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
President Joe Biden’s move would allow immigration officials to deport migrants quickly if the enter the U.S. without an asylum appointment, when the weekly average of illegal daily entries exceeds 2,500. CBS News’ Natalie Brand reports.
CBS 2's Andrew Ramos reports that the Gage Park Fieldhouse was long known as a community hub that brought people together, but for the past year, it has been a site of controversy.
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A letter sent to the convention rules committee establishes that "no virtual voting will begin before August 1."
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Tiffany Henyard was accused by board members of keeping certain items off the agenda Tuesday night—including an ordinance that board members say would cap spending by the supervisor.
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Sen. Bob Menendez tried to shift the blame to his wife, Nadine Menendez, but was found guilty on all 16 felony counts for a scheme involving bribery and business favors.
As of Tuesday evening, a total of five tornadoes had been confirmed in the Chicago area from the storms Monday night and six Sunday night.
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One third of Chicago's roughly 400 new car dealers are using pen and paper to complete deals.
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Shane Butler said he was grateful to be alive, and he owes it all to the safety training he did exactly one year before he accidentally shot himself.
Bally's took possession of the River West property July 5.
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Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice based on the misconduct of police and prosecutors.
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Artist Anna Lasbury said she's never made a real cake but can make a fake one.
It's been a busy and eventful week at the Republican National Convention, where everyone is talking about former President Trump's running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance. On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris campaign released a new video bashing Vance, just hours before he’s set to take the stage at the RNC.
Thousand of people in the Chicago area are still without power Wednesday after powerful and dangerous storms that hit the area both Sunday and Monday nights.
Police officers brought in from Columbus, Ohio to help with security at the Republican National Convention shot and killed a man holding a knife outside the convention center on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service on Tuesday was investigating 29 potential tornado tracks. So far, 17 tornadoes have been confirmed.
traffic is now being forced off at Old Orchard Road.
For Monday night, 11 individual tornadoes have been confirmed so far.
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