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Chicago to start evicting migrants amid measles outbreak

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As thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers living in Chicago-run migrant shelters are set to be evicted this weekend, a growing number of confirmed measles cases inside the city’s largest shelter has intensified the push for Mayor Brandon Johnson to again extend the deadline.

Seven measles cases have been confirmed at the shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood since Friday, including three new cases Tuesday, the Chicago Department of Public Health said. At least one additional case has been reported outside the shelter.

These cases are the first reported in Chicago since 2019. A team from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention is in Chicago to help address the measles outbreak.

Despite the measles issue, Johnson announced Wednesday that the city will continue to enforce its 60-day limit on shelter stays for migrants who have been housed by the city for two months.

The Johnson administration had previously stated that about 5,600 migrants could be in that group, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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While addressing questions about the deadline Wednesday, Johnson told reporters that “there will be exceptions” without specifying how many people would be forced to move. Johnson said that he wasn’t sure that the number of evicted migrants was “substantial” but said that those who are evicted could return to the city’s migrant landing zone — the site where migrants first go when they arrive from Texas.

Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

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A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a school trip when she was a child, according to court filings.

Police and federal authorities had been searching for John Goodrich after a grand jury in Williamsburg on Jan. 17 found probable cause that he committed four felonies, including rape by force, threat or intimidation, forcible sodomy, and two counts of felony aggravated sexual battery by a parent of a child.

Those charges were filed weeks after the AP investigation revealed how a representative of the church, widely known as the Mormon church, employed a risk management playbook that has helped it keep child sexual abuse cases secret after allegations surfaced that Goodrich abused his daughter Chelsea, now in her 30s, at their home in Idaho as well as on a school field trip to the Washington, D.C., area 20 years ago.

“I hope this case will finally bring justice for my childhood sexual abuse,” Chelsea Goodrich said in a statement to the AP. “I’m grateful it appears that the Commonwealth of Virginia is taking one event of child sexual assault more seriously than years of repeated assaults were treated in Idaho.”

A call Wednesday to John Goodrich’s cellphone went immediately to voicemail. Tommy Norment, a Williamsburg defense attorney for John Goodrich, declined to comment, saying he was still familiarizing himself with the case. The Williamsburg Police Department also did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Goodrich’s case.

Goodrich’s arrest in Virginia comes nearly eight years after he was arrested in Idaho on similar charges. Chelsea and her mother, Lorraine, went to Idaho police in 2016 to report wide-ranging allegations of abuse during her childhood.

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