Immigrants from the southern border have entered Chicago through a new method of transportation over the last week, using transit trains to go to the city after buses dropped them off in a suburb.

They arrived in September 2023 – part of a wave of some 49,000 migrants that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent to Chicago, mostly by bus, since August 31, 2022. Most, like Suares, come from Venezuela.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, told The Chicago Tribune that bus companies are now no longer communicating about where they are dropping migrants ...

The influx of immigrants from the southern border into Chicago has now exceeded 15,000 thanks to the arrival of 27 buses since Saturday. The increasing amount of asylum-seekers in the Windy City ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Seven buses carrying asylum seekers arrived in Chicago on Tuesday. Office of Emergency Management and Communications spokeswoman Mary May confirmed some of those buses arrived ...

Fifty coaches carrying migrants have arrived in Chicago over the last week and authorities are bracing for up to 25 buses with around 1,250 people aboard to start arriving daily.

The charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city. Wynne Transportation ...

Immigrant girl on Chicago-bound bus from Texas died from infection, other factors, coroner says. Associated Press. Fri, September 8, 2023 at 12:39 AM UTC. 1 min read.

Abbott’s bus program, which uses both taxpayer money and private donations, has racked up a price tag of $12 million, or about $1,300 per immigrant bused to the East Coast so far.

MARION COUNTY, Ill. -- A 3-year-old migrant girl who was on a Texas-sponsored bus to Chicago died last week, prompting investigations by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other ...

An autopsy shows a bacterial infection and other factors caused the death of a 3-year-old girl on a bus carrying immigrants from Texas to Chicago last month, an Illinois coroner said Thursday.