COVID-19 relief money is helping prop up Chicago’s 2022 budget. But with a sizable tax increase and an election year looming, what happens when that’s gone? – Chicago Tribune*

With COVID-19 showing no signs of abating, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot days before Christmas raising the possibility of another shutdown if omicron continues to spread unchecked, “the financial challenges would be real if the economy doesn’t bounce back,” Civic Federation President Laurence Msall said.
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Streeterville
4 years ago

Covid monies prop-up Lightfoot and Pritzker, without “fixing” anything.

The Paraclete
4 years ago

Helping prop up! WTF? That’s the entire budget! They’re like animals. Spend it before anyone else gets their hands on it! Chicago logic.

Ex Illini
4 years ago

No sense worrying about tomorrow when you can spend like a drunken sailor today!

Bross
4 years ago
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Hold on Ex Illini don’t go making us drunken sailors look bad!

Ex Illini
4 years ago
Reply to  Bross

My apologies! You are correct of course. Going forward, I will do my best not to compare you and your associates to the lowlifes that comprise Chicago leaders.

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