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After backlash, Chicago City Council drops restrictive new rules to public seating at its meetings

The new rules were prompted after a number of intense and chaotic City Council meetings.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 12, 2023

Migrant tent shelter plans on pause

Mayoral spokesman Ronnie Reese said the plan is on hold for now as the city has had success with other plans and the state has plans to open shelters soon.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 11, 2023

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 28, 2023

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Streeterville boutique hotel becoming homeless shelter, staff laidoff

The move to open the shelter is part of a city plan to provide emergency beds for the winter. It comes amid squabbles over what’s going to migrants and what’s going to unhoused Chicagoans.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 8, 2023

Chicago officials ink nearly $30M contract with security firm to move migrants to winterized camps

Chicago officials have signed a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm to relocate migrants seeking asylum from police stations and the city’s two airports to winterized camps with massive tents before cold weather arrives

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

City signs $29.3 million contract to build ‘winterized base camps’ for migrants

The contract doesn’t mention specific sites for the giant camps, and none have been chosen, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s press secretary Ronnie Reese.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 20, 2023

Garcia questions whether Johnson, a CTU organizer, can be an objective mayor

Brandon Johnson is a paid organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union who helped lead it in two strikes and two job actions since 2012.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 17, 2023

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