Chicago’s burgeoning migrant crisis will have cost taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars by Dec. 31, Mayor Brandon Johnson told City Council members Friday.
The mayor also wanted Council members to know it is full-speed ahead for his plan to move asylum seekers out of Chicago police stations and into giant tents before temperatures plummet. But he still offered no new details.
Between August and December of 2022, the city spent $17.5 million to house, feed, clothe and otherwise care for asylum seekers. As the pace of new arrivals increased exponentially, the city’s spending from January through July 23 ballooned to $115.2 million. Through the rest of the year, top mayoral aides expect the crisis to cost the city another $123 million.Ald.
He did say "sacrifices" would be required and the cost of not making those sacrifices would be far greater and would trigger "chaos.""I think it is really trying to identify what the other funding sources are, whether there’s [federal stimulus] funds that can be used, if there’s grant money, if there’s federal money or more offered by the state."Chicago continues to struggle to house thousands of migrants.
Vasquez said he has heard of only one specific site: at 115th and Halsted, former location of a Jewel grocery store. "The floodgates are open. … They mentioned the state, the governor. But nobody ever said a damn word about the president, calling out the president. Let’s secure our borders," Sposato said.
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