Former CPS school to be used as shelter for migrants
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As early as this Friday, a group of migrants may be moving into a former elementary school on Chicago?s South Side.

Controversy surrounds Woodlawn school being used to house migrants

As early as this Friday, Jan. 6, a group of migrants from the Texas border could be moving into a former CPS elementary school on Chicago’s South Side; however, the plan is causing controversy in the city’s Woodlawn neighborhood.

Shuttered Chicago school to be used as shelter for migrants
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As early as this Friday, a group of migrants may be moving into a former elementary school on Chicago?s South Side.

Lightfoot under pressure to find funding for migrants

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has until the end of January to find funding for the thousands of migrants bused to Chicago from Texas.

Lightfoot asks Illinois for millions more to help migrants
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot has until the end of January to find funding for the thousands of migrants bused to Chicago from Texas.

Shuttered Woodlawn elementary school to house newly arrived asylum seekers

Chicago officials plan to repurpose a former elementary school on the city’s South Side into a temporary shelter for newly arrived immigrants.

Supreme Court ruling on Title 42 casts asylum seekers as 'political tool,' Chicago immigration advocate says

As families seeking asylum in the United States face ongoing threats of being turned away from the border, some have opted to send their children alone, said one Chicago-based immigration advocate.

Supreme Court to keep Title 42 in place indefinitely

The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on people seeking asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality.

Supreme Court upholds Trump-era immigration policy
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The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on immigration in place indefinitely, dashing hopes of immigration advocates who had been anticipating their end this week.

Buses from Texas send migrants to VP Kamala Harris' home on Christmas Eve

Some were wearing T-shirts despite temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the coldest Christmas Eve on record in DC.

Migrants gather at US-Mexico border as Title 42 hangs in limbo
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Katy Arnold, director of refugee and forced migration studies at DePaul University, talks about Title 42 as an immigration policy and how it is bottlenecking refugees near the U.S.-Mexico border amid an uncertain future.

Suspense grows at border over future of US asylum rules

Migrants have been denied rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law since March 2020 related to preventing the spread of COVID-19 under a public-health rule called Title 42.

‘Remain in Mexico’: Federal judge blocks Biden bid to end Trump-era policy

Under former President Donald Trump, about 70,000 asylum-seekers were forced to wait in Mexico for U.S. hearings under the policy introduced in January 2019, which President Joe Biden suspended on his first day in office.

'Major surge' in border crossings
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A pandemic-era border policy is set to end next week, and it has border towns worried about another surge of undocumented immigrants.