Sneak peak at mayor’s spending plan shows millions for community development, affordable housing and homeless support – Chicago Sun-Times*

Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved up her 2022 budget address by a month to coincide with the unveiling of her plan to spend the $1.9 billion avalanche of federal stimulus funds on its way to Chicago. That’s where much of the action will be during this year’s budget hearings as aldermen continue to push back against Lightfoot’s plan to use a financial shell game of sorts to get around the U.S. Treasury Department’s ban on using federal COVID-19 relief funds to retire debt.