More Chicago suburbs vote to restrict unscheduled migrant bus drop-offs
Several additional suburbs pass ordinances limiting when buses can drop off migrants as bus operators are turned away from Chicago.
Several additional suburbs pass ordinances limiting when buses can drop off migrants as bus operators are turned away from Chicago.
Dollar stores do fill a void and are convenient in Chicago, Natalie Moore writes. But they don’t sell fresh produce and offer too much canned and processed food.
Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero died Sunday afternoon after suffering a medical episode at the migrant shelter on Cermak Road and Halsted Street where the family was staying, according to police. Autopsy results were still pending Thursday afternoon.
Hundreds gathered at a vigil for Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, leaving flowers and balloons at a memorial on the sidewalk. ‘He was a beautiful boy, he was always happy.’
The space is currently housing over 2,300 people, more than half of whom are minors. Families there and health care providers say illnesses are spreading rapidly.
The boy died Sunday at Comer Children’s Hospital, and four girls and a woman were taken to hospitals at different times Monday with fever and vomiting, official said.
A stretch near Clinton and Lake streets that the local alderperson calls ‘a magnet for narcotics and violent crime’ will be cleared. But the welfare of the street dwellers is of concern to people in the area.
Jobs can be a source of inspiration, but opportunities are diminishing for young Black people in the Chicago area, Alden Loury writes.
Residents say the city isn’t doing enough to protect them from nonstop truck traffic and industry, so they’re taking matters into their own hands.
State environmental regulators determined there were too many harmful metals and other toxic substances detected on the property for it to safely house asylum-seekers.