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Tessa Weinberg | WBEZ

How some Chicago migrants struggling to leave shelters are getting help

Matt Joynt gets help from two passers-by as he tries to jumpstart a truck that volunteers share to deliver furniture to asylum seekers on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Volunteers like Joynt are teaming with a Chicago landlord to move more migrants out of shelters and into permanent homes. (Tessa Weinberg / WBEZ)

At the Todo Para Todos shelter in Pilsen, volunteers this summer kept running into roadblocks to find permanent housing for asylum-seekers.

The vacant warehouse in Pilsen was retrofitted into a shelter for migrants in May to relieve a maxed out police station nearby. Over the course of the summer volunteers estimate upward of 250 asylum-seekers — more than 70 of those children — lived there.

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