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    Migrants arriving in Chicago sleeping in bus shelters and police stations as community steps in to help

    CHICAGO — Chicago is a sanctuary city, a welcoming place for migrants. That’s what Cesar Pino Marcano, 28, heard when he arrived at the southern border of the United States seeking asylum — fleeing hunger and chasing a promised dream of a job that could pay enough to ensure the well-being of his family in Venezuela. But when he arrived on a bus full of other people on the same path as him, it ...
    by Laura Rodríguez Presa and Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune Jan 16, 2023 6 minutes
    Luisette Kraal, of Iglesia Cristiana La Vid of Park Community Church, holds a small toy while talking to a woman who migrated from Venezuela while other migrants look for clothing in her New Neighbors Free Store, located in the basement of the Chicago church, on Jan. 12, 2023.

    CHICAGO — Chicago is a sanctuary city, a welcoming place for migrants.

    That’s what Cesar Pino Marcano, 28, heard when he arrived at the southern border of the United States seeking asylum — fleeing hunger and chasing a promised dream of a job that could pay enough to ensure the well-being of his family in Venezuela.

    But when he arrived on a bus full of other people on the same path as him, it was only the cold wind of a January night that welcomed them at Union Station downtown. The group of more than 20 got off the bus and parted ways, he said, each without direction but searching for a warm place to stay.

    Pino Marcano and three other men he met on his journey north from Venezuela walked to a place where they heard from other asylum-seekers that they could find space. But they were turned away because there were no more beds, Pino Marcano

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