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The city of Chicago has spent more than $100 million to provide help and services to the thousands of migrants who have arrived in Chicago from south of the U.S. border since last August, mostly on personnel costs.
Chicago is taking steps to open up to five new migrants shelters with a combined capacity of nearly 2,500 to grapple with a continued surge of asylum-seekers.
What are migrants? Many were placed on buses or planes and shipped to Chicago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, after crossing the Mexican border.
Potential sites for new shelters were identified in a memo distributed to Chicago City Council members in advance of a meeting on Wednesday of the council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee.
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Sites including former Marine Corps and Armory locations were listed in a memo to City Council members before an Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee meeting.