Lake County, Elgin to receive $1 million each to assist asylum-seekers – Daily Herald*

Hundreds of asylum-seekers have been arriving in the Elgin area within the past year. Said Dianha Ortega-Ehreth, of Centro de Información - one of the three organizations that will benefit from the Elgin grant. "Our case workers are all fully bilingual and bicultural. They are all trained to work with new arrivals. We estimate that we can reach close to 1,000 individuals over the course of the year."