Volunteers across Chicago are providing necessities to migrants who are spending weeks living in police stations waiting for housing
Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan asylum seekers await housing as shelters are overwhelmed following expiration of Title 42 A migrant couple from Venezuela and their baby have been staying in the lobby of a police station, with other migrant families, since their arrival in Chicago in May.
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