Illinois leaders tepid about quick funding for Chicago and migrants

State leaders on Thursday threw more cold water on the prospect of quickly providing new funding to help Chicago’s migrant crisis as Mayor Brandon Johnson also grapples with resistance from aldermen who have declined to identify land in their wards for Johnson’s plans to set up tent base camps for new asylum-seekers before winter.

During an appearance with Gov. J.B. Pritzker, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said Chicago will not see a state grant for asylum-seekers in the fall veto session, when Springfield will have the option of designating additional funding for the fiscal year that ends June 30. That means the state might not provide more substantial financial help on migrants until legislators reconvene in the spring.

“I think I made it clear that we were not expecting to do a supplemental budget in the veto session,” Welch said regarding his meeting last week with Johnson at City Hall.

But as Johnson unveiled a 2024 budget Wednesday that included only $150…