Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza (left) and Lori Lightfoot both wanted to be mayor of Chicago; here they are shown at a mayoral candidates’ forum in February 2019. Lightfoot won, and now she and Mendoza are teaming up to give some of Illinois’ poorest families a temporary reprieve on some overdue fines, tickets and judgments.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is joining forces with a former mayoral rival to provide a temporary $15 million break for working families hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Roughly 41,000 Illinois households with incomes low enough to qualify for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit will not have unpaid traffic fines, unpaid parking tickets and outstanding court judgments withheld from their 2020 state income tax refunds.
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