Yenedy Reys-Pardo had just started attending Eisenhower High School after her family arrived in Blue Island from Colombia seeking asylum when her new friend had a seizure in the swimming pool. Her help may have prevented tragedy.
The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago’s legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants and turn it into a unified shelter structure that advocates for the homeless have long championed.
Their passage gives Johnson much-needed money to continue the daily churn of migrant caretaking while adding a sprawling pool of cash to spend on housing, job growth and cultural projects.
The speed with which migrant funds were marshaled has stirred widespread resentment among Black Chicagoans. But community leaders are trying to ease racial tensions.
Chicago Mayor Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker have yet to detail plans if three’s an influx of migrants sent to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention.
The funding represents the majority of the $100 million Board President Toni Preckwinkle dedicated in her $9.6 billion 2024 budget to the county’s Disaster Response and Recovery Fund.
The plan passed the Budget and Government Operations Committee in a 20 to 8 vote following contentious debate over the continued costly effort to care for the city’s recent migrants arrivals.
The DuPage County Health Department announced Saturday that a resident tested positive for measles, the first case identified in the county since 2009.
The DuPage County Health Department announced Saturday that a resident tested positive for measles, the first case identified in the county since 2009.
The city of Chicago and the state of Illinois are set to split more than $19 million in new congressionally approved funding released to assist cities and states in addressing the migrant crisis, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced Friday. The Department of Homeland Security released the first installment of $300 million in grants to support communities providing services to migrants, federal officials said Friday. The funds come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. An allocation of $275 million will be distributed first and the remaining $25 million will be allocated later in the year, […]