Chicago’s migrant shelters will be shut down at the end of the year and absorbed into an existing system for homeless residents, Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a Monday announcement praising his administration for getting past an earlier humanitarian crisis while brushing off concerns of shrinking bed capacity that could lead to more people on the street.

Chicago's Mayor Johnson announced the One System Initiative, merging migrant and homeless programs by 2025, tightening shelter access for migrants.

Ten months after the last bus of migrants arrived in Chicago from Texas, some big changes are in store for the city’s shelters, as officials plan to merge migrant shelters with the city’s existing homeless shelters.