With climate change coming, Chicago’s current migrant influx ‘only going to be the beginning’

More than 44,000 migrants have been sent to Chicago by bus or plane over the last two years and the city’s struggle to keep them housed, fed and safe has stretched resources and sparked fierce debate over how scarce tax dollars are spent. But the largely man-made influx where asylum-seekers have been sent from Texas to cities like Chicago is likely “only going to be the beginning,” of migrant movements as climate concerns continue to escalate, Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th, predicted Tuesday. Aldermen on Tuesday weighed the prospect of future...