Over the last few months Mayor Emanuel has repeatedly vowed to use every tool at his disposal to help end the murders on the city’s south and west sides.
The mayor established the approximately $20 million fund last year to provide property tax rebates to home owners who couldn’t afford his tax hike, intended to finally pay off our pension obligations.
Indulge me for a moment as I return to a happier time in Chicago finances, when former alderman Richard Mell offered this breathless ode to Daley during the council’s debate on the Skyway deal:
It’s good to know that pensioners somewhere are benefiting from our largesse—too bad they’re in another country.
“These are investments in job creation, neighborhood improvement, public safety,” the mayor told reporters. “Things that we want to invest in that are right to do.”
Lopez says recent shootings in his ward—particularly West Englewood and Back of the Yards—jolted him into action.
