As Illinois and Chicago officials this fall were planning how to ease the strain on the city's overburdened migrant shelter system, members of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration crafted a Spanish-language flyer aimed at discouraging asylum-seekers at the southern border from coming north by painting a bleaker picture of the weather and support available here.
The disconnect has persisted, even after the state stepped in last month to promise $160 million in additional aid to the city that included covering the cost of a tent encampment to house migrants sleeping at police stations and at O'Hare International Airport, currently numbered at more than 600.
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