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A consultant's report has disclosed the removal of elevated levels of contaminants from a vacant lot in Chicago designated for a tent camp housing 2,000 migrants.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has paused construction on a base camp for migrants in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood following the release of an...

Chicago is scrambling to house hundreds of asylum-seekers who are still sheltering on sidewalks, at police stations and even airports.

High levels of mercury and other contaminants are being removed from a vacant Chicago lot where a tent camp housing 2,000 migrants is planned, a report from a consultant hired by the city said.

Chicago is scrambling to house hundreds of asylum-seekers who are still sheltering on sidewalks, at police stations and at the city’s busiest airport as the cold weather sets in and with winter just around the corner.

Chicago is scrambling to house hundreds of asylum-seekers who are still sheltering on sidewalks, at police stations and even airports.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago is scrambling to house hundreds of asylum-seekers who are still sheltering on sidewalks, at police stations and at the city's busiest airport as the cold weather sets in and wit...

Despite promises by Mayor Brandon Johnson that a full environmental assessment report would be released “by the end of the week,” the city has not provided...

City officials say the most problematic metals and chemicals have been removed. State environmental officials will have to sign off before the project is finalized.

After weeks of pressure, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration dropped a voluminous environmental assessment of a proposed tent camp for migrants late Friday that said contaminants are being removed from the former Southwest Side industrial site. The nearly 800-page report by outside contractor Terracon Consultants was released to the Tribune on Friday evening. It said high levels of mercury ...