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With no end in sight to Chicago’s migrant crisis, the City Council agreed Thursday to throw another $34.5 million into what is becoming a bottomless pit for Chicago taxpayers.
Ald. Desmon Yancy (5th) introduced the South Shore Housing Preservation Ordinance at Thursday's City Council meeting, capping a push by affordable housing organizers that began in 2021, the same year
Alderpersons OK’d a $33 million Homeland Security grant to care for asylum-seekers and also agreed to spend $1.5 million in tax increment financing dollars to buy a 10.7-acre property formerly used by the Marine Corps and convert it into a shelter for up to 550 migrants.
Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t take his predecessor’s word for it when Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she’d left the city in great financial shape, with an $85 million shortfall. And it’s a good thing the new mayor was skeptical, his top aides told some City Council members in a budget briefing.
After a surge of attention just after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, newsreel footage lay dormant.