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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Johnson implementing 60-day limit on shelter stays in next phase of plan to confront migrant crisis

Mayor Brandon Johnson, shown presiding at Wednesday’s Chicago City Council meeting, is announcing more details of his plans to deal with a flood of asylum-seekers and other migrants arriving in Chicago. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Declaring he will “never sacrifice the needs of Chicagoans for those who wish to become Chicagoans,” Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday teased a new phase of his plan to confront the migrant crisis, including a 60-day limit on shelter stays.

With tensions still running high in opposition to the winterized base camps he’s racing to open in Brighton Park and Morgan Park, Johnson may hope the new plan will ease at least some of that pushback.

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