In Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposed 2022 budget, she offered each of the city’s 50 alderman a $100,000 sweetener to spend in their wards almost any way they want, The Chicago Tribune reported.
The mayor billed the $5 million “microgrant fund,” as a flexible “tool” to meet the individual needs of the city’s diverse wards but it could also be seen as a bargaining chip for city council support for the $16.7 billion budget that they ended up passing.
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