Mayor Brandon Johnson launches unified shelter system as migrant shelter population wanes

Mayor Brandon Johnson moved ahead Friday on his plan to close Chicago’s migrant shelters and fold them into the city’s existing system for homeless residents. The so-called “One Shelter” system will combine shelters that have long served the city’s homeless with several facilities launched to care for the over 50,000 migrants who came to Chicago since August 2022. The shift, announced in September and finally carried out just days before the Christmas holiday, marks the end of the city’s migrant crisis response. “That period has almost come to a close,”...