CHICAGO (CBS) -- There are many questions, and not many answers, about the city's new plan to house migrants at base camps with military-grade tents. As CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reported, the goal ...

Migrants slept in tents, ... New Life Church New Life Centers, a ministry associated with New Life Church, partnered with the city of Chicago to process migrants arriving on buses from Texas.

However, these shelters may already be at capacity, furthering the need for winterized tents. Last year’s data by the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) found that over 68,000 residents ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Taxpayers will be on the hook for more than $1 million for a giant base camp tent that was supposed to be built to house migrants back in 2023. The construction was scrapped ...

Chicago taxpayers to shoulder $1.8 million after settling lawsuit over controversial plans to house 2,000 migrants on vacant lot — what happened and why there’s nothing to show for the effort ...

More than 46,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since late 2022, the majority on buses from the southern border. For Convention Goers in Chicago, the Issue of Migrants Comes Into Full View ...

Chicago's homelessness surged in 2024, as major U.S. cities bore the brunt of a national trend Even as migrants find permanent housing, the city’s problem persists with its lack of adequate ...

A combined shelter, housing migrants and the homeless, in the 4900 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Chicago on April 10, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) ...

ICE detained several immigrants in Chicago's South Loop on Wednesday and clashed with advocates protesting the arrests. WGN News cameras rolled as advocates gathered outside the BI Incorporated ...

CHICAGO — The buses full of migrants arriving from Texas have disappeared. Shelter beds are increasingly empty. And homeless newcomers with nowhere else to go are no longer crowding airports and ...

In 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing migrants to the city of Chicago. By the summer of 2023, Abbott had been busing about 2,000 migrants a week to Chicago, according to WTTW .