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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will postpone shelter evictions for migrants until March following pushback from the council and community.
Nearly two hours elapsed before aldermen broached the subject of conditions at city shelters for migrants at a hearing called Tuesday specifically for that purpose. Instead, after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Monday announcement that he would not move to evict thousands of shelter residents until March, questions at the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights meeting were relatively tame and ...
Nearly 2,000 people were to be evicted had the policy been enforced as planned starting Thursday. Mayor Brandon Johnson extended that deadline Monday under pressure from more than a dozen City Council members.
Chicago City Council members are urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to extend the Feb. 1 migrant shelter eviction deadline.
CHICAGO — More than a dozen Chicago aldermen on Thursday called on Mayor Brandon Johnson to scrap his 60-day shelter limit policy for migrants, the latest sign the City Council’s recent streak of independence has swelled with the city’s controversial responses to the humanitarian crisis. Johnson allies such as Alds. Daniel La Spata and Byron Sigcho-Lopez are among the 16 aldermen who joined ...