The city's low temperatures are expected to drop into the upper 20s this week. Our first snowfall of the season arrived three weeks ago. And it will get a lot colder, snowier and icier in the weeks and months to come.
As of Wednesday, there are 12,000 men, women and children housed in shelters here, with another 2,200 migrants living in police stations across the city and at O'Hare International Airport, waiting for a bed to open, according to city data.
Castejon said that despite the dangerous trek to get here - often begging for money and sleeping in the streets to cross several borders - the journey had not been worth it.
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