Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has renewed a controversial contract with the out-of-state company that staffs the city’s migrant shelters despite its significant overtime billing, a move his ...

Newly obtained invoices show a Kansas-based company, Favorite Healthcare Staffing, billed the city of Chicago more than $7.2 million to staff migrant shelters during a four-week period this spring, ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson renewed a contract with Favorite Healthcare Staffing to man the city’s migrant shelters, even as Chicago lawmakers and residents criticize the Kansas-based company’s ballooning ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- CBS 2 has learned the City of Chicago has upped its budget with Favorite Healthcare Staffing – the firm it has used to care for new migrant arrivals – by $85 million. This is the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Efforts to make Chicago's animal control department a no-kill zone were dealt quite a set-back the past few weeks because of the city's deepening financial crisis. Shelter space is ...

When a security guard clocked out of a Streeterville migrant shelter one Friday in March, he’d just logged his 84th hour at work that week. His bosses told the city it was at least his 56th day in a ...

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Students at a Chicago high school were left without a teacher for several weeks, an issue stemming from a teacher shortage and chronic absences in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), according to a report.