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Chicago Migrant Spending Approaching $300 Million

Hot dogs are served to migrants, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, outside a Northside police station where they live in a small tent community in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

With the city’s spending on non-citizen migrants increasing, criticism of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his handling of the ongoing crisis also grows.

In the 11 months since Johnson took over at City Hall, data from the “New Arrivals Mission” website pegs such spending at nearly $300 million with more than 38,000 migrants having arrived in the city and around 9,700 still residing in city shelters.

Read the full story by The Center Square.

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