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“Sacaron a los migrantes de las comisarías y los llevaron a los refugios, así que estamos averiguando dónde están y también iremos allí”, dijo el chef.
Native Americans started it all, making Chicago a welcoming place to “DuSables” of all colors, creeds, orientations and socio-economic backgrounds, Buildings Commissioner Matthew W. Beaudet writes.
Organizations offer free meals, a dinner table and a ‘family’ environment for those who need it. Arepas were a top choice at one spot. ‘I’m feeling the warmth’ a guest said.
Migrants staying with West Side families show appreciation for all the help they have received on the journey to Chicago.
For many, the blessing is simply being here. They had a long journey and faced untold hardships to request asylum in America, the executive director of New Life Centers writes.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is moving ahead with plans to shelter up to 2,000 asylum-seekers despite protests in the Southwest Side community.
Los manifestantes dijeron que más de 10 camiones estaban en fila para entrar en el sitio para poner una base de grava, que los funcionarios de la Municipalidad han dicho que se requiere en cualquier sitio destinado para ser un campamento de migrantes.
Protesters said more than 10 dump trucks were lined up to enter the site to lay a gravel base, which city officials have said is required of any site intended for a migrant camp.
Todos, con algunas excepciones, tendrán que irse a principios de abril, según la norma.
The coin was a South African 1/2 Krugerrand that was dropped at a kettle outside the Jewel-Osco at 1300 S. Milwaukee Ave. in Libertyville.
El estado proporcionará $65 millones para un sitio de refugio preparado para el invierno donde hasta 2,000 migrantes pueden permanecer hasta seis meses. Otros $30 millones ayudarán a establecer un centro de admisión. Los $65 millones restantes pagarán servicios legales y de otros tipos de apoyo.
Effective Friday, all migrants entering shelters have 60 days before they must leave. The rule worries those who await work permits, which can take months.
The money, announced by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, will help create a tent shelter, a migrant intake center and other assistance to move asylum seekers out of temporary locations, including police stations.
The mayor discussed the plan only briefly Wednesday, offering few details, but promised to reveal more on Friday. Also, sources told the Sun-Times that on Thursday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to announce additional assistance to deal with the influx of migrants, to the tune of $160 million.
The $16.77 billion plan, approved 41-8, holds the line on taxes and increases spending for an array of popular programs. But it also relies on one-time revenues and budgets far too little for the migrant crisis.
There are fewer buses coming into the city carrying migrants then recent months, and the number of migrants at police stations has also dropped.
Las llegadas de autobuses han vuelto a bajar de aproximadamente nueve por día a un par por día.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first budget is expected to sail through the Chicago City Council on Wednesday. It’s balanced in part with $786.5 million in one-time revenues. The search for new revenue sources has been punted to a Council subcommittee.
New rules ban profane, vulgar, threatening, abusive or disruptive language. Also out: banners, signs, large bags and sharp objects.
Don’t be fooled by the mayor’s winning smile and soaring, preacher’s son rhetoric, nor by the governor’s make-nice statements from the podium. There is real frustration and tension behind the scenes on both sides.
We rejected Donald Trump’s xenophobia in 2016 and 2020, and Chicago must reject it now as the presidential election and Democratic National Convention approach in 2024, state Sen. Robert Peters writes.
Another $2 million will be matched by the Chicago Food Depository, which has already been providing meals to migrants since June, in partnership with 15 minority-owned restaurants in Chicago.
El portavoz del alcalde dijo que la mitigación de los contaminantes en el terreno se completaría para el fin de la semana.
Plans to turn the West Side park field house into a migrant shelter have been abandoned as the number of migrants camped out at police stations has dropped, Ald. Chris Taliaferro said.
The tents are expected to be completed in a matter of days and will house 500 migrants at first.
Derogar la ordenanza no impediría que los migrantes lleguen a Chicago, y el debate sobre la ordenanza ha empeorado las tensiones raciales.
Migrants will be housed in local churches until they find housing. It will reach 100 migrants immediately and 340 in total. More than 1,000 migrants remain at police stations.
A repeal would not stop migrants from arriving in Chicago, and the debate over the ordinance has worsened tensions between Black and Brown communities.
The city’s tactics seem like another page out of this administration’s handbook: stonewalling the public and elected officials while saying as little as possible.
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