Chicago Has $142M Left in Federal COVID-19 Relief Funds After $87M Cuts to Balance 2025 Budget – WTTW (Chicago)

City officials would have an additional $87 million to spend on a host of programs, but the Chicago City Council used those funds to balance the city’s 2025 budget and avert a property tax hike. That means the City Council reduced the amount of federal money available to the city to fuel a wide variety of social service programs until the end of 2026 by nearly 38 percent to balance the city’s budget without a single sentence of debate about what those cuts will mean for Chicagoans who have yet to regain the ground they started to lose five years ago.
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Mark F
1 year ago

“Hey Rocky, watch me grab a rabbit out of my hat!” The Rocky and Bullwinkle show, otherwise known as Mayor Johnson and the Chicago City Council continues to head down the road of destruction.

Isn’t Illinois Fun?
1 year ago

WTTW contributes to the liberal smog that fouls our lives. No mention here of the permanent explosion in the city, county, and state budgets for permanent programs and increased government payroll funded by temporary federal money. No mention of the pension debt and budget deficits that will be exponentially exacerbated by such decisions.

Old Joe
1 year ago

Let’s return it to the Treasury to benefit all of America.

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