Preckwinkle’s office allocated an initial $40 million in 2021 to help promote equity and an additional $10 million this year. Future funding is expected to come from Cook County’s reserve fund and the cannabis tax, county officials said. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
When you don’t know how to actually improve anything, just throw money at it.
We deserve people like Toni, Lori, JB, and their ilk.
They are, inarguably, neither leaders or people of even decent intellect.
Equity is earned. Not just given!
I can’t wait to see what the County comes up with. They’ve done a great job with the criminal courts and jail. Something is just telling me though that this is nothing more than creating a bunch of six figure do nothing jobs.
Any thought given to how the county-wide mutual combat affects the mental health of the non-combatants?
Are you kidding? They county does not even care about the victims of those mutual combatants let alone the other non combatants
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