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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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CST Editorial Board

City moves to authorize two new migrant shelters, but what’s the plan beyond that?

Migrants sit outside the Broadway Armory Park Field House, 5917 N. Broadway, which has been converted into a temporary shelter. (Michael Loria/Sun-Times)

The city is working to bring two new migrant shelters online, which is good as Southern governors continue to send asylum seekers to Chicago by the busload.

About half of the 13,500 migrants sent here since last year have been placed in temporary shelters, and around 1,500 are still sleeping in police stations and airports as they await shelter space the Sun-Times reported last week.

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