By Alice Yin, July 17, 2023

Mayor Brandon Johnson toured a new welcoming center for migrants at a Chicago Public Schools campus on Monday, as hundreds of asylum-seekers continue to wait for shelter inside police stations with no immediate end in sight.
Johnson was joined by CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and other city officials inside Roberto Clemente Community Academy, where a new center dedicated to assisting young migrants in the West Town community area will debut this week, funded through CPS’ regular operating budget. The new resource hub — designed to help youth enroll in school, as well as connect with medical care, temporary housing and other social services — was pitched as a pilot program that the mayor’s administration hopes to replicate citywide.
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