Invoices show how millions of dollars flowed to Favorite Healthcare S…

The growing number of migrants arriving in the city of Chicago has raised questions among leaders about how the city can continue to shoulder the growing costs of staffing migrant shelters and caring for more than 18,500 asylum seekers.

In the past year, city financial records show nearly $60 million has flowed to an out-of-state company, Favorite Healthcare Staffing, which holds the contract to staff the city’s migrant shelters.

As aldermen spend the next few weeks in budget hearings, there are more questions about whether the mayor’s current budget proposal will cover the costs for sheltering migrants or if there are local providers who could save the city some money.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal allocated $150 million to cover the cost of migrants, but some aldermen have raised questions about whether that figure would cover the current costs in the coming months.

For months, NBC 5 Investigates has been following the money billed by…