(benscripps / Pixabay) A call for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to use COVID-19 relief fund to send cash assistance payments to Chicagoans struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic triggered a heated debate on reparations for the descendants of enslaved people.
Although the City Council voted 30-18 to pass the nonbinding resolution championed by Alds. Gilbert Villegas (36th Ward) and Maria Hadden (49th Ward), Black Caucus Chair Ald. Jason Ervin (27th Ward) said it was an insult to talk about using $50 million to send 5,000 of Chicago’s neediest families $500 a month without having a plan in place to pay […]
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