The city of Chicago has spent nearly $300 million to shelter and care for asylum-seekers — but not all of the money is accounted for.
The state of Illinois launched a page on its comptroller’s website to track city spending in dealing with the migrant crisis, but Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t been entirely transparent about funding for 18 of the city’s 27 shelters.
Alderman Andre Vasquez, the chairman of the city’s migrant committee, told the DailyMail that it wasn’t right they weren’t receiving the full picture.
“So I think something that we’ve been looking at is how to really get more mandated reporting from the government as they’re making decisions, because our constituents are asking us those very questions,” Vazquez said.
The city has also received criticism for outsourcing staffing of the shelters to private companies, hiding how those funds were
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