Well, and now it's time to check in with Curious City.

It's the project where you ask questions about Chicago and the area, and we find the answers.

Today, we are answering a question from Lowell Weiss.

Does the city actively participate in resettling international refugees in certain neighborhoods such as Rogers Park?

So the short answer to that question is no.

The city of Chicago does not play a role in refugee

resettlement, but Lowell set out with our North Side Bureau reporter Odette Yousaf to find out who does.

Hi. Are you Lowell? Yeah. Odette. Nice to meet you. I meet Lowell on Devon Avenue. It's near the

intersection with Western Avenue and we're outside an old apartment building.

All right, so it's Unit 2A, so let's go in.

All right.

We're at this building because a refugee family is moving in tomorrow. Today, the people resettling them are inside, getting the apartment ready.

Ooh, it's kind of warm in here.

We go up to a one-bedroom apartment where the temperatures cranked up to at least 80 degrees.

Waiting for us there is Ryan Spangler.

Just today we brought a full bed, two twin beds and a table and five chairs, And we're working on bringing in a futon.

Spangler is the housing coordinator for the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs. That's one of

five local nonprofits that resettles refugees in the Chicago area. Spangler found out about a week

earlier that the family would be coming. And here's what he knows. It's a family of

four, two parents and their young sons. They're Rohingya, that's a persecuted Muslim minority

from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. They fled Myanmar and were living in Malaysia, and Spangler

says Devon Avenue would be a welcoming neighborhood for them.

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