Mayor Lori Lightfoot offered all 50 aldermen a $100,000 microgrant to use in their wards as they see fit.
The $100,000 sweetener that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot offered each alderman under her 2022 budget — to spend in their wards with wide leeway — has so far generated plans ranging from after-school programs for youth to more private security patrols.
Gardiner’s office listed St. Constance School, in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, as an anticipated recipient of up to $25,000 of his ward’s 2022 microgrant, according to a city document. He wrote that the funds would go toward maintaining the school’s extended daycare program, including costs of supplies for extracurriculars and tutoring, and cited the pressure on local parents to find childcare.
In the 4th Ward, Ald. Sophia King, who is running for mayor, indicated in a city document that she hopes to contract with Halo Security Group for $50,000 to provide foot and vehicle patrols in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood Thursday through Sunday. Asked about the patrols, King sent a statement characterizing the security guards as “unarmed ‘ambassadors,’” modeled after the University of Chicago’s own private security program in Hyde Park and surrounding neighborhoods, to “patrol the streets for an extra set of eyes.”Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, reiterated similar concern that police resources were not enough.
In a statement, Reilly said the association and his office are “still working out details” on the microgrant program’s scope and whether the guards will be armed. But he indicated the goal was to protect the Magnificent Mile corridor.
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