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1. What is Chicago’s long-term plan for migrants arriving from border states?

City officials are bracing for another influx of migrants, and it appears their strategy of using police stations as makeshift shelters is reaching a breaking point if it hasn’t already.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports migrants have been sleeping and eating on the floors of police stations, where they have been provided with expired meal rations. And infections and infestations have become a common problem.

“We need a coordinated effort from the city and the federal government,” said Mary Schaaf, a volunteer with the online community Refugee Community Connection. “And that’s what’s been lacking since back in August.”

Dr. Evelyn Figueroa of the Pilsen Food Pantry, who has been assisting in community efforts to help the new arrivals, said she is pushing City Council members to hire workers to coordinate social services at police stations.

“How long are we going to fight about politics and let people sleep in police stations?” Figueroa said. “We are trying to separate social work from policing, and yet we are coercing them into these roles we know are not right for them, not what they signed up for and overwhelm the police stations.” [Chicago Sun-Times]

2. At least six people are dead after a dust storm caused pileups on an Illinois highway

The deadly crashes took place in central Illinois near Springfield yesterday on Interstate 55, involving 40 to 60 cars and multiple tractor-trailers, two of which caught fire, officials said.

“The only thing you could hear after we got hit was crash after crash after crash behind us,” said Tom Thomas, who was traveling south to St. Louis.

The dust storm created a “whiteout situation,” blocking out almost all visibility, authorities said. More than 30 people were injured in the crashes.

“You couldn’t even see,” said Evan Anderson, who was returning home to St. Louis from Chicago. “People tried to slow down and other people didn’t, and I just got plowed into. There were just so many cars and semitrucks with so much momentum behind them.” [Chicago Sun-Times]

3. A frontrunner emerges in the search for an interim Chicago Police superintendent

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson appears to be near a decision on who will serve as a temporary superintendent and, perhaps, audition for the permanent job.

Fred Waller, who rose through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department to chief of patrol, chief of operations and then third in command, emerged as a frontrunner this week for the interim job, report my colleagues Fran Spielman and Tom Schuba.

Waller served 34 years at the department before leaving under the turbulent tenure of now-departed Superintendent David Brown.

“His tenure as interim superintendent could be a trial run for the permanent job, especially if Chicago makes it through the summer without a surge of violent crime or a repeat of the mayhem last month that gave Chicago a black eye around the world,” Spielman and Schuba report. [Chicago Sun-Times]

4. Illinois’ House speaker, an ally to organized labor, faces a push from his own employees to unionize

Employees working in Illinois House Speaker Emmanuel “Chris” Welch’s office have declared their intent to unionize, citing low pay, confusing time-off policies and other grievances, reports WBEZ’s Alex Degman.

Two dozen employees have already begun the process toward unionizing as the Illinois Legislative Staff Association. But office officials will not voluntarily recognize their efforts.

“After being elected speaker of the House, Speaker Welch promised that it was a new day in Springfield,” said Brady Burden, an analyst in the research and appropriations unit and a member of ILSA’s organizing committee. “Unfortunately, it has been more of the same for his employees since the beginning of his tenure.”