When a security guard clocked out of a Streeterville migrant shelter one Friday in March, he’d just logged his 84th hour at work that week. His bosses told the city it was at least his 56th day in a row working a 12-hour shift, according to invoices they filed with the city — invoices whose sizable overtime helped contribute to tens of millions in city payments to the firm staffing the city’s .
With room for only dozens inside at each police station, hundreds, like the Leal family, are sleeping outside. Some have been able to get tents, but many have not, putting them at risk of hypothermia or other illness, advocates say.
With room for only dozens inside at each police station, hundreds, like the Leal family, are sleeping outside. Some have been able to get tents but many have not, putting them at risk of hypothermia or other illness, advocates say.
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Wednesday he will visit the southern U.S. border imminently, as city predictions that buses from Texas would spike to new heights were turning true. In a post-City Council news conference Wednesday afternoon, the mayor said Chicago was now expecting at least 14 — and as many as 22 — buses that day and delivered a promise: “I am going to the border as .
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