Dashboard

New Arrivals Situational Awareness Dashboard 

 

Since August 31, 2022, the City of Chicago has welcomed over 51,000 new arrivals from the southern border. The following dashboard reflects current and historical data regarding the City’s new arrivals response. The New Arrivals Situational Awareness Dashboard provides a visual of the extent of this humanitarian endeavor.  

The Data 

The City of Chicago receives limited information about the timing and number bus and airplane arrivals, as well as passenger composition and verification of sponsors. However, since the early days of this operation, our Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) has recorded and reported the number of chartered buses that arrive to our “landing zone”, people who arrive by airplane in our airports, and those who independently arrive to emergency staging areas in police stations.

An unprecedented increase in the frequency of buses accompanied the announcement of Chicago as the host of the Democratic National Convention. In response to this fluid and dynamic situation, the City of Chicago stood up several temporary congregate shelters across the city and provided case management for new arrivals to embark on a path of resettlement and self-sufficiency. Due to the amount of time it took to retrofit buildings into congregate shelters, the City relied on police station districts and airports to serve as emergency staging areas while people awaited shelter placement.

To protect the safety of new arrivals, the data visually illustrated shelter census aggregates only and did not disaggregate the census at individual police stations and airports. Given the shifting landscape, this dashboard continued to evolve as we expanded our data collection and management capacity.

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 New Arrivals Daily Snapshot
Total Individuals Seeking Asylum Arriving via Texas Buses & Airplane *
51,648

Total Individuals Seeking Asylum Arriving via Airplane Since June 2023
5,209
Total Bus Arrivals in Chicagoland Area Since 8/31/2022
946
Total Individuals Resettled **
17,183
Total Individuals Reunited with Sponsors **
7,689
Total Shelter Census
2,487
Total Awaiting Placement ~
0
Total Waiting in Police Station
0

Total Waiting at O'Hare
0
Total Waiting at Midway
0
Total Waiting at Landing Zone ~
0

 

AS OF DECEMBER 18th,  2024, AT 1:00pm

 

~ this number is fluid and changes throughout the day
* does not include individuals arriving independently or greyhound.
** Reported Weekly