Chicago closes Daley College migrant shelter as city's asylum seeker population continues to drop

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Chicago closes Daley College migrant shelter as city's asylum seeker population continues to drop
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The shelter at Daley College opened in June 2023, and housed as many as 415 migrants by July 2023. As of last week, 56 migrants were living there.

CHICAGO -- City officials have closed a migrant shelter that had been operating at Richard J. Daley College since last summer, as the number of asylum seekers in Chicago shelters continues to drop. The city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications confirmed the shelter was 'decompressed' in recent days, and all migrants living there were moved to other shelters or resettled into permanent housing.

'The additional temporary shelters will ensure that shelter capacity and wraparound services remain accessible to asylum seeker families as they transition out of our system of care and on to independence,' Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement last month as the state announced the two new shelters.More than 44,300 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August 2022, when Texas Gov.

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