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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Chicago out of money, space and time to handle migrant crisis, City Council told

Migrants have been housed at the Chicago Police Department’s Central District, 1718 S. State St., for months. (Emmanuel Camarillo/Sun-Times file)

Chicago is out of money, space and time to handle the “humanitarian crisis” caused by asylum-seekers descending on Chicago, with 40,000 people waiting at the border and a surge that has yet to peak, top mayoral aides warned Friday.

For three hours, a joint City Council committee was told about a calamity so dire — with young families sleeping on police station floors — that decisions that might otherwise have been politically unthinkable need to be made.

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