Mary May, a spokeswoman for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications in Chicago, said that the last bus to drop newly arrived migrants in the city was on the night of Dec. 25.

Crates with electric bus motors wait for public auction at the shuttered Lion Electric school bus factory in Joliet on May 24, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) ...

In order for her to work and drop him off at school every day, she applied for a position as a school bus driver. It’s position she was granted that has not been filled for the last 2 years.