I'm realizing that the city's
migrant dashboard undercounts the number of migrants who have arrived in Chicago, since it doesn't include people who've made independent travel plans to the city. To give an idea by how much the city is undercounting, page 3 of this recent presentation lists the number of individuals processed at the SW border who listed Chicago as their destination:
https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/...fing%20(1).pdf
If we see from the week of May 13th to December 23rd, we see almost 57k migrants have Chicago as their final destination! This doesn't even include migrants who initially moved to NYC and Denver and were given tickets to relocate to Chicago. This is higher than the roughly 39k who were bused or flown by Texas. This population growth is on par, in some instances higher, than Chicago in the early 20th century!
Even though the city hasn't been great at taking care of migrants, I think the only reason it hasn't been as bad as NYC or Denver is cause we have so much more vacant units than either of them.