Bumpy landing: Migrants — adults and children — languish in buses for days at city ‘landing zone’

With temperatures in the mid-30s Monday, Jesus Infante, 23, an asylum-seeker from Venezuela, stands outside Chicago Transit Authority warming buses at Chicago’s designated landing zone for new migrant arrivals at 800 S. Desplaines St. in the West Loop. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Hundreds of migrants are now spending their first nights in Chicago aboard buses at the city’s designated “landing zone” for new arrivals, where many say they’re getting little food or medical assistance.

“An adult can take it, but the kids can’t — the cold, the sickness” said Jonathan, a recent arrival, on Monday outside the bus where he’s been staying four nights with his partner and their son.