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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Chicago will spend $255.7 million on migrant crisis by year’s end, mayor says

Migrants wave as a bus leaves Union Station to take them to a refugee center in August 2022, at the start of the latest migrant crisis. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file photo)

Chicago’s burgeoning migrant crisis will have cost taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars by Dec. 31, Mayor Brandon Johnson told City Council members Friday.

The mayor also wanted Council members to know it is full-speed ahead for his plan to move asylum seekers out of Chicago police stations and into giant tents before temperatures plummet. But he still offered no new details.

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