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The only sign of bureaucratic progress — if you can call it that — is the Department of Family and Support Services’ release this week of two requests for proposals for agencies to “administer and execute outreach for the pilot.”
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Another example of Lori red lining the engine in neutral. She’ll replace this empty scheme with a fireworks display every weekend.
Leave Chicago now it’s a sinking ship!!
Demonstrates that CIty Hall presently can’t even manage its way out of paper-bag.
Witness disorganized response by City Hall/CPD Commissioner in regards to out-of-control street crime rates: jabber, jabber, jabber, then self-congratulations for nothing.
Ahh, the real reason for this give away program has finally come to light. The “requests for proposals for agencies to administer and execute outreach for the pilot” is where the money will go when the right applicant is approved. And, of course, the chosen applicant will have tentacles that go back to one or more of the alder creatures. My estimate is that it will take $1500 in administrative overhead for every $500 check cut to a chicagoan. Oh, and those receiving $500 checks will also have connections to some crook in power. There will be a few checks… Read more »