Most of the $51 million approved by the City Council during a recent tense meeting will go toward paying a national staffing firm that is providing around-the-clock personnel at the makeshift shelters where recently arrived asylum seekers are seeking refuge, according to a city official.

Cristina Pacione-Zayas, first deputy chief of staff for Mayor Brandon Johnson, told the City Council’s Committee on Immigration and Refugee Rights during a Wednesday hearing that $47 million must be used to pay personnel, describing it as something they “inherited” that was not the best use of funds. Pacione-Zayas said the administration plans to seek request for proposals in July from Chicago-based organizations that could take over that work.

Also here's something else I didn't realize buried in the story.

The $51 million is in addition to the Illinois state budget that included $42.5 million targeted for illegals for shelter, legal representation and translation services.

This is thanks to the governors on southern states bussing the illegals up there. Keep going. We need to break them.

On the other hand they will probably get federal monies to make up for it.

Who owns the staffing firm, lol.