PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- About 200 Venezuelan migrants bussed to the Chicago area by the Governor of Texas, are now staying in a hotel in Prospect Heights and the children are in school.
The acting mayor, Matthew Dolick, said he had a couple days’ notice that the migrants were on the way-about 200 people and 60 of them are children.
"We need to be sympathetic as a city and accommodate these migrants as best we can," he told the Daily Herald.
They’re in a hotel for at least a month-maybe six. That’s unclear.
A Prospect Heights police officer took a group to a local park over the weekend and the park district donated soccer balls.
The children are now enrolled in schools and the mayor said he doesn’t see this as a burden on city resources.
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