Venezuelan Asylum Seeker Designs Logo to Help Raise Funds for Group A…

For the many volunteers helping migrants living at Chicago police stations, raising funds is essential to their work.

One group, known as the Police Station Response Team, teamed up with a Venezuelan migrant to design the logo on merchandise being sold to raise money for food, clothes and medicine for asylum seekers.

The logo is an image of the Chicago flag with a twist. Butterflies replace the stars, and the design is adorned with the words peace, care, opportunity and abundance.

Those are the words graphic designer and asylum seeker Winter Navas uses to describe Chicago.

“This is a city of opportunity,” Navas said in Spanish. “The one who knows how to use that for good will thrive. If you don’t, you’ll get lost.”

Navas currently lives at the shuttered Wadsworth Elementary School — one of the city’s 15 shelters being used to house migrants. He chose a butterfly for his Chicago flag logo to describe a migrant’s journey and growth.

“It’s the only animal or…