Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap

[Elderberry]

Legal Insurrection by Ben Smith 3/28/2026

“The community engagement process will gather input from Chicagoans across the city to better understand Black Chicagoans.”’

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is moving ahead with a reparations push while Chicago faces a budget gap of more than $1 billion and a projected $150 million deficit, with large portions of spending already tied up in pensions and debt obligations.

The new “Repair Chicago” initiative is built around bus tours, town halls, panel discussions, and hearings to gather testimony to inform a larger reparations plan. The effort expands on a process that began with the creation of a reparations task force in 2024, which was given funding and a formal mandate to study “historical harms” against Black Chicagoans.

    “Your experience is evidence and we’ve placed it at the center of our work. By engaging directly with residents, we are grounding this work in the voices and lived realities of the people it is meant to serve.”

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/03/chicago-mayor-pushes-reparations-amid-1b-budget-gap/

[Smokin Joe]

Illinois fought on the side of the Union. Who is going to be robbed to buy those votes, and will the rest of the country be expected to make up the inevitable shortfall that will happen in some other part of their budget to feed such a giveaway?

Racist thieves, pure and simple.