Clocked in 12 hours a day, 7 days a week: How staffing bills for migrant shelters swelled with overtime – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

Exactly what happens inside Chicago’s nearly two dozen migrant shelters has largely been a mystery to the public because the city has chosen to keep the media and even volunteers out. Yet what’s becoming more clear is how costly the arrangement has been, in a system staffed by an outside firm hired by city officials under pressure to act quickly and allowed to operate largely out of public view.