Chicago is closing its shelters specifically designated for migrants and merging them with the city’s current homeless services starting in 2025, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Monday. Under what the mayor’s office calls a “unified sheltering system,

After two years and half a billion dollars spent, the city of Chicago's migrant shelter system will close as we know it.

Chicago’s migrant shelters will be shut down at the end of the year and absorbed into an existing system for homeless residents, Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a Monday announcement praising his administration for getting past an earlier humanitarian crisis while brushing off concerns of shrinking bed capacity that could lead to more people on the street.

There was a time earlier this year that Chicago and the State of Illinois was opening a new migrant shelter every week, but with buses stopping operations, the city is making massive changes.