Good morning, Chicago. Here are some top stories to start your day: - Rental funds help migrants leave shelters, but thousands more wait - Some Northwestern football fans are ditching their tickets - Can Kevin Warren’s ambitious vision revive the Bears?
Venezuelan migrant Ari, 32 watches her son, 2, dance in the living room while watching TV in their Chicago apartment, July 20, 2023.
The sweet smell of chicken soup filled Ari’s home as she cooked dinner while her husband was at work. Her 2-year-old son was napping, but his toys adorned the living room floor. Now, she said, she’s grateful to have made a home of her own in an apartment in a North Side neighborhood thanks to a rental assistance program that helps asylum-seekers move out of shelters and into permanent housing.
A Chicago police evidence technician processes a crime scene at a gas station at 601 S. Independence Boulevard in Chicago on Jan. 6, 2023.The latest data at least offers a hopeful sign that the increases in violent crime during the pandemic were not the start of a new era of steadily rising crime, as many experts had worried. But the data is limited to the cities in which the council could obtain data, and the authors cautioned that for some categories only a few cities released statistics.
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