The latest map, which now goes to Gov ... 2021. Guaranteed basic income is coming to Chicago with one of the nation’s largest programs giving cash directly to residents in need.

The numbers of the map correspond to ... of racial segregation in Chicago. In the Near North Side, for instance, a quarter of households struggle to afford basic needs, compared to 70% in South ...

There is one map of Chicago. It repeats itself over and over again. I’m sure you’ve seen it. Any cartographic representation of the city’s urban maladies is always a backward-leaning ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is relaunching the city’s guaranteed basic income program (GBI) to exhaust $374 million in federal money earmarked for community projects. Although it appears the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Brandon ... Supporters of the guaranteed basic income program that provided qualifying households with $500 per month for a year are frustrated that it is being ...

For recipients, it’s a lifeline. For liberal supporters, it shows how expanding government can make a difference. For conservatives, it’s a return to wasteful welfare handouts. By Jonathan ...

The basic income program, dubbed Chicago Resilient Communities, was included in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2022 budget and funded by federal COVID relief dollars, with the first checks going out the ...

Under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the city of Chicago received nearly $1.9 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding — the majority of which went toward city operating expenses. Overall ...