migrants

A 5-year old boy, Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, who was found unresponsive at a Pilsen migrant shelter in December, died as a result of sepsis due to strep; COVID-19 and two other viral infections were listed as contributing factors, NBC 5 Investigates learned late Friday from Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has – for the third time — postponed the enforcement of its 60-day shelter stay policy, which is designed to limit how long migrants can stay in city-run shelters.

Under pressure from City Council members, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday pushed back — until mid-March at the earliest — the city’s plan to evict migrants living in the city’s 28 shelters after 60 days. Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern has the story.

CHICAGO – Taking questions for the first time in weeks, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson denied that he and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are “at odds” over how to approach the ongoing migrant crisis.

A contentious debate regarding the city’s migrant crisis continued in City Council on Wednesday as the city seeks more federal help, NBC Chicago’s Bennett Haeberle reports.

Together, volunteers handed out more than 200 meals at Chicago warming centers.

Local volunteer organizations are teaming up to feed those in need as dangerously cold temperatures have gripped the Chicago area, NBC Chicago’s Kate Chappell reports.

The mayor of Eagle Pass, the border town at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings, says state troopers have closed a large public park along the Rio Grande.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference Wednesday morning, Gov. J.B. Pritzker took aim at Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott for what he called a “cheap political stunt” of continually sending migrants to major U.S. cities, including Chicago, while at the same time urging both Congress and lawmakers in his own state to approve spending measures to address the ongoing...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker took aim at Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott for what he called a “cheap political stunt” of continually sending migrants to major U.S. cities, including Chicago, while at the same time urging both Congress and lawmakers in his own state to approve spending measures to address the ongoing crisis.

CHICAGO – The City of Chicago has signed a $30 million spending increase with Favorite Healthcare Staffing to continue to provide staffing for the city’s temporary migrant shelters – now bringing the total spending limit on Favorite’s current contract to more than $70.2 million.

A top U.S. delegation met with Mexico’s president Wednesday in what many saw as an attempt to have Mexico do more to limit a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern border.

Days after a child living at a Chicago migrant shelter died and others were hospitalized, a group of medical providers close to the shelter are alleging health care services at the shelter are nowhere near what the city had promised.

One unassuming town on the Great Plains in Colorado has built a generational migrant support network over decades.

A plane carrying dozens of asylum-seekers arrived at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday evening, having traveled to the city unannounced from Texas, NBC Chicago’s Bennett Haeberle reports.

A plane carrying dozens of asylum-seekers arrived at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday evening, having traveled to the city unannounced from Texas, officials said.

Migrants and volunteers alike are sharing details of the conditions of a Pilsen migrant shelter where a 5-year-old boy died on Sunday, NBC Chicago’s Bennett Haeberle reports.

The death of a five-year-old who had been staying a migrant shelter in Pilsen is raising questions about migrants’ access to health care and whether gaps may exist in the city of Chicago’s response to the crisis. Volunteers and those staying in the shelter say people are falling ill at the large temporary shelter on South Halsted. While the...

The death of a five-year-old who had been staying a migrant shelter in Pilsen is raising questions about migrants’ access to health care and whether gaps may exist in the city of Chicago’s response to the crisis. NBC 5 Investigates’ Bennett Haeberle reports.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday signed into law sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country.