Chicago closes migrant shelters in Hyde Park and The Loop
City officials confirmed Friday that migrant shelters at the Standard Social Club and the Chicago Lake Shore Hotel have closed.
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City officials confirmed Friday that migrant shelters at the Standard Social Club and the Chicago Lake Shore Hotel have closed.
Luis David Pafino Reyes, his wife Vanessa Fuentes, and their four children traveled to Chicago from Venezuela, after they said they were persecuted for opposing the Maduro regime in their homeland.
The closing of the Little Village shelter comes at a time when more than 5,000 migrant shelter beds in Chicago are empty.
The state says the migrants in the shelter will be relocated to thousands of vacant beds in the city if they wish to remain in the shelter system. Sabrina Franza reports.
The One System Initiative is designed to streamline how the city serves its homeless residents and newly arriving migrants.
Local leaders on Thursday revealed details about a proposed plan to merge homeless and migrant shelters in Chicago and what a unified shelter system could look like. Asal Rezaei reports.
Local leaders revealed details about a proposed plan to merge homeless and migrant shelters in Chicago and what a unified shelter system could look like. They called it the One System Initiative. It's designed to streamline how the city serves its legacy homeless community and newly arriving migrants, all under one comprehensive structure.
The baseless rumors have been amplified in recent days by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Altogether, nearly 48,000 migrants have resettled in Chicago.
The Italian interior ministry says over 43,000 people have arrived in the country by sea since the start of this year.
In just the past seven days, over 2,100 migrants have tried to reach the UK on small boats, as the EU's increasingly strict asylum rules and rising xenophobia push some to try heading north.
Another 17 were also hurt. They were part of a migrant caravan walking in the state of Oaxaca.
In Chicago, capacity is available to house around 11,000 people. Only about half of those beds were occupied as of Friday night, and an official says the city is prepared if there is an influx.
The number of migrants arriving at hte southern border hit a three-year low of just over 83,000 in June.
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Two of those security guards are off-duty Chicago Police officers, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit was filed this week by five recently-arrived migrants, and says two security guards they accuse are off-duty Chicago Police officers. Marybel Gonzalez reports.
Since President Biden’s executive order in June restricting asylum access, migrant apprehensions have dropped to their lowest level in years.
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Since 2022, 45,000 migrants have relocated to Chicago, and a majority of them are from Venezuela. Some say the election results could prompt a surge or lead to a drop in migrants coming across the border
Sunday was election day in Venezuela, and the outcome could result in ripple effects for thousands of Venezuelan migrants in Chicago. Many local Venezuelans rallied on the Magnificent Mile Sunday to bring attention to the critical election and support friends and family back home. They say there is so much riding on the election, which will very likely determine if people stay or decide to leave their homeland.
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.
Chicago police were investigating early Sunday after a man was slashed to death the night before in Washington Park.
A man was shot and killed Saturday night while sitting in a sport-utility vehicle in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
Three people were shot on Chicago's West Side overnight Saturday into Sunday, and one of them was killed.
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The Chicago Plan Commission voted Thursday to approve a plan to redevelop Ford City Mall into an industrial complex, despite objections from some neighbors.
A new Barnes & Noble bookstore opened in the heart of downtown Chicago on Wednesday, while separately, a building that used to house an old Barnes & Noble store in the Gold Coast was being demolished.
The Original Rainbow Cone celebrated its 100th anniversary on Sunday with a special event at its Beverly location.
The Shops at North Bridge on the Magnificent Mile announced plans Thursday for a multimillion-dollar renovation project.
Madonna leads all artists with 11 nominations at this year's MTV VMAs, and a full sweep would tie her with Beyoncé and Taylor Swift for the most VMA wins in history.
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Chicago police were investigating early Sunday after a man was slashed to death the night before in Washington Park.
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A man was shot and killed Saturday night while sitting in a sport-utility vehicle at 62nd and May streets.
Three people were shot on Chicago's West Side overnight Saturday into Sunday, and one of them was killed.
ComEd crews are heading to Northwest Indiana to assist NIPSCO in power restoration efforts, 11 days after powerful storms knocked out power across the region.
Authorities said there is no active threat to the public.
Chicago police were investigating early Sunday after a man was slashed to death the night before in Washington Park.
A man was shot and killed Saturday night while sitting in a sport-utility vehicle in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
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Chicago police were investigating early Sunday after a man was slashed to death the night before in Washington Park.
A man was shot and killed Saturday night while sitting in a sport-utility vehicle in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
Three people were shot on Chicago's West Side overnight Saturday into Sunday, and one of them was killed.
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