A group of migrants receives food outside the migrant landing zone during a winter storm on Jan. 12, 2024, in Chicago. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
"Here we are begging for more money when we don’t have money for the people here," said 9th Ward Ald. Anthony Beale, a Democrat who opposed the proposal. "We don't have money for after school programs. We don't have money to help our kids get off the street. Yet, we would just blow money left and right. That's a fundamental problem."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson initially allocated $150 million to help fund the care of migrants who arrived in the city. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, File)
The $70 million, should the full City Council approve the proposal, will be drawn from the city’s assigned fund balance from 2022, Budget Director Annette Guzman said Monday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The City Council could vote on the proposal as soon as Wednesday.
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