City officials are asking residents to step up donations of badly needed coats, boots, sweaters, socks and other warm clothes as 17,000-plus asylum-seekers and counting — most coming from Venezuela — prepare to weather their first Chicago winter.
Besides those bare necessities, the city is also seeking more ideas on where to house the burgeoning migrant population, which grows by busloads daily, courtesy of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders aiming to stretch the resources of Democratic-led sanctuary cities like Chicago.
