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IL lawmakers approve sending $20M to city for Chicago migrant care; Mayor Lightfoot hoped for more
CHICAGO — Chicago is ready to obtain $20 million from the state to take care of migrants arriving within the metropolis.
On Jan. 10, state lawmakers handed an appropriations invoice containing the hundreds of thousands for prices related to “shelter, transportation, fundamental well being and first help, meals” and different wants for asylum seekers. The invoice is awaiting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature.
However $20 million is lower than what Mayor Lori Lightfoot hoped for. Late final month, Lightfoot despatched a letter to state legislators from Chicago asking for his or her assist in securing $53.5 million in extra state funding by means of the top of the fiscal 12 months to take care of the migrants.
Her plea got here simply at some point after the state knowledgeable Chicago that it will quickly terminate all fiscal help to the town for migrant providers.
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Since late August, greater than 5,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago aboard chartered buses from Texas and Colorado. Of the brand new arrivals, 3,937 have accepted shelter and providers from the town, county and state, Chicago officers stated.
The town has needed to get inventive to supply shelter for the inflow of migrants, together with turning the Northerly Island customer heart into non permanent housing.
The video within the participant above is from an earlier report.
(Source: Solar-Occasions Media Wire – Copyright Chicago Solar-Occasions 2023.)
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CHICAGO (CBS) — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday warned stores and restaurants around the country not to sell or serve oysters from British Columbia, Canada, that may be contaminated with the norovirus.
Illinois was among the states where the oysters were sold. They were also sold in Arizona, California, Colorado, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
The oysters were sold as Fanny Bay, Buckley Bay, and Royal Miyagi.
The oysters were harvested between Dec. 1 and Dec. 9 from growing areas BC 14-8, Landfiles (LF) # 1413888, 1409240, 1402294, 1409454, 1402193, 1402293, 1402060, and growing area BC 14-15, LF # 249854.
Symptoms of norovirus include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, and stomach cramps. A fever may also develop.
Restaurants and retailers that have the oysters should throw them away, or return them to their distributor to be destroyed. The FDA also advised that shellfish can be a source of pathogens more generally, and the risk of cross-contamination of food processing equipment and the food processing environment must be averted.
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