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Migrants were flown to Chicago from Texas on a chartered flight Tuesday night in the state’s latest effort to ship people to the sanctuary city after buses carrying migrants have been penalized. The city did not receive notice prior to their arrival and has had no communication with Texas officials, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s spokesperson Ronnie Reese. Reese said he wasn’t sure how ...

When Carmen and her family arrived to Chicago in early September after months of travel through Central and South America, they were ostensibly luckier than most new arrivals: She, her

Chicago politicians are calling for the federal government to increase funding for migrant care after earlier this week a 5-year-old boy staying at a Lower West Side shelter died and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent migrants to the city for the first time on a chartered plane. At a news conference Thursday outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building downtown, Ald. Byron ...

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/PRNewswire/ -- On November 20th, 2023, Breneman Capital acquired the apartment community known as Ashland Place located at 33 S Ashland Ave in Chicago, IL....

Chicago authorities removed more than a dozen tents Monday from a controversial West Loop encampment to clean the sidewalks, forcing those living there to temporarily pack up their belongings before some returned later in the day. Several residents of the encampment near Union and Ogilvie transit stations opted to leave their sidewalk spots for shelters, while others said they planned to put ...

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A stretch near Clinton and Lake streets that the local alderperson calls ‘a magnet for narcotics and violent crime’ will be cleared. But the welfare of the street dwellers is of concern to people in the area.