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Amid city delays, state pitching in additional $2M to feed migrants

Another $2 million will be matched by the Chicago Food Depository, which has already been providing meals to migrants since June, in partnership with 15 minority-owned restaurants in Chicago.

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Public officials celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new American Blues Theater on the Northwest Side, activists held a vigil for people who have died while detained at Cook County Jail, and construction workers began framing a “winterized base camp” for asylum-seekers in Chicago.

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Chicago City Hall is owed billions of dollars it hasn’t managed to collect

A Sun-Times analysis finds that thousands of scofflaws — many from the suburbs — have dodged city debts over the years, depriving City Hall of a massive sum of money as Mayor Brandon Johnson faces steep budget challenges.

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Comienzan la construcción de campamento para migrantes

El portavoz del alcalde dijo que la mitigación de los contaminantes en el terreno se completaría para el fin de la semana.

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Broncos injuries: Jerry Jeudy returns to practice

Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy (groin) was back at practice Thursday after being held out on Wednesday.

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Amundsen Park won’t become migrant shelter; park programs return

Plans to turn the West Side park field house into a migrant shelter have been abandoned as the number of migrants camped out at police stations has dropped, Ald. Chris Taliaferro said.

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Brighton Park migrant tents begin rising

The tents are expected to be completed in a matter of days and will house 500 migrants at first.

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Central Market food and retail space lands at Midway Airport: ‘It represents the global city that we truly are’

The Central Market’s opening marked completion of the eight-year, $400 million Midway Modernization Program, which expanded security checkpoints and upgraded parking garages and concessions.

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Broncos injuries: Jerry Jeudy did not practice Wednesday

Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy did not practice today, but coach Sean Payton said he expects the receiver will be "fine."

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CHA’s $50 million plan to renovate scattered site housing is a step in the right direction

The CHA could start to fix its poor track record on providing enough affordable housing for Chicagoans in need. The CHA’s board should approve the funding.

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Heroic police officers, firefighters honored for bravery in ceremony not held since COVID-19 lockdown

After a four-year hiatus, Mayor Brandon Johnson presented the Carter Harrison and Lambert Tree awards to six police officers and firefighters. One of the honorees said she was “blessed that everybody ... was able to go home to their families alive.”

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As O’Hare expansion price tag climbs, airport’s two biggest carriers want project scaled back – or grounded

United and American airlines are slated to share a new “global terminal” handling both domestic and international flights — a project funded in part by airlines. But now both carriers want Mayor Brandon Johnson to alter those plans.

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Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing with aldermanic prerogative, HUD says

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is being asked to enter talks for an “informal resolution” of an almost five-year civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Mayor Brandon Johnson announces new church-city partnership to house migrants

Migrants will be housed in local churches until they find housing. It will reach 100 migrants immediately and 340 in total. More than 1,000 migrants remain at police stations.

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Broncos might get reinforcements on the injury front this week

Broncos WR Brandon Johnson is eligible to return from injured reserve this week. TE Greg Dulcich became eligible to return last week.

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Mayor, CPS honor high-achieving student ‘Champions’ as the ‘best part of who we are’

A team of app developers looking to ease college and career searches and a 9th-grade debater hoping to bridge policy and people were among the students honored. “You will help us all build a better, stronger and much-safer Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

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City should be more transparent on cleanup of Brighton Park migrant tent site

The city’s tactics seem like another page out of this administration’s handbook: stonewalling the public and elected officials while saying as little as possible.

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Construction of winter tents for migrants in Brighton Park to start Monday

A contractor is expected to begin the final phase of construction over the objections of Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) at a site where heavy metal contamination was found.

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Controversial Brighton Park migrant tent site is polluted with metals, city plans cleanup

Over protests, Mayor Brandon Johnson is moving ahead with plans to shelter migrants on polluted Brighton Park site

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Mayor Brandon Johnson to begin removing migrants from shelters in January with 60-day rule

Effective Friday, all migrants entering shelters have 60 days before they must leave. The rule worries those who await work permits, which can take months.

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Illinois earmarks $160 million to keep migrants warm in Chicago as winter approaches

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois will funnel an additional $160 million to help get migrants on their feet in Chicago

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CFD welcomes new recruits during somber graduation held days after death of firefighter Andrew Price

The department was still mourning the loss of firefighter EMT Andrew “Drew” Price, who died earlier in the week.

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Mayor Johnson gets a green light on budget, but kicks the fiscal can down the road on migrant spending

With the city spending $40 million a month on the migrant emergency and no assurance of more state or federal aid, the long-term financial impact of Johnson’s budget is still very much up in the air.

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

The mayor discussed the plan only briefly Wednesday, offering few details, but promised to reveal more on Friday. The goal, he said, is to more quickly move asylum-seekers out of shelters and into work and self-sufficiency.

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With one year till Chicagoans elect the school board for the first time, here’s what’s still being worked out

Lawmakers haven’t settled on a voting map and floated a last-minute proposal to accelerate moving to a fully elected board.

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