Preckwinkle pitches no new taxes in the Cook County budget — but faces a big staffing crunch – WBEZ (Chicago)

There’s $71 million to provide $10,000 grants to small businesses, and $42 million for the guaranteed income pilot program. Another $14 million aims to expand a program that helps provide housing for patients and hire more behavioral health specialists to support homeless patients, among other needs. The list of county initiatives goes on. More money to boost economic development, erase medical debt, hire more attorneys and social workers to implement new rules related to the Pretrial Fairness Act, and invest in technology to get property tax bills out by the end of the year.