The city and state are in the planning stages to combine Chicago’s legacy homeless shelter system with its system for migrants, according to government officials, and turn it into a unified shelter structure, an idea advocates for the homeless have long championed. The “One System Initiative” will shift a “permanent shelter management to the non-profit workforce,” Illinois Department of Human .
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Later this month the justices will hear a case that will determine whether cities can use local laws to ban homeless people from sleeping outside with a blanket or other bedding.