Here’s how to help migrants arriving in Chicago

Neislymar Gonzalez’s two children, a daughter 5 years old and a son 4 years old, at the Central District police station in Chicago. Chicago’s response to a growing immigrant crisis has turned police stations into makeshift shelters for asylum-seekers. (Natalie Garcia / For the Sun-Times)

Thousands of migrants have been bused or flown to Chicago since August 2022, and when they arrive, they do so with almost nothing.

Citing an urgent need to provide new arrivals — many fleeing violence and political repression — with everything from warm clothing to housing, the city, faith leaders and advocates are calling on regular Chicagoans to pitch in.