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Chicago’s response to a growing immigrant crisis has turned police stations into makeshift shelters where asylum seekers have been provided with expired meal rations and where infections and infestations are a common problem.

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken aim at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for busing migrants to the city, saying they're not receiving medical treatment.

Crime and economic development key issues in two South side aldermanic runoff races,.

Chicago voters elected 62 people Tuesday to serve on the city’s first civilian police oversight councils.

Voters are electing members of councils for each of the city’s 22 police districts. The councils will provide community feedback to police.

Three districts where crime is surging — Central, Gresham and Shakespeare — have only two candidates for three open seats.

A Chicago woman filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging she was falsely arrested and assaulted by a Chicago police officer while trying to clean a store where she worked during 2020′s unrest and mass looting.

A man was found dead inside a house fire Wednesday morning in Gresham.

8 May 2021 The police department in the Democrat-run city of Chicago is so under-staffed detectives are being told to put on a uniform and go sit on a salt truck. Yes, you read that correctly, plain-clothes detectives who are trained and paid to investigate crimes like homicide are being ordered to put on a uniform and “sit in a fixed position or on a street corner, sometimes with a ‘city asset’ such as a salt truck[.]” The “memo” in question was obtained by CWBChicago and lays out...