Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap
“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.”
The administration has not outlined the cost of any eventual reparations program or how it would be funded. That omission comes as the city continues to manage structural financial pressure stemming from existing debt and limited flexibility.
Two years after the task force was established, the city remains in a phase focused on collecting public input rather than presenting final recommendations or cost estimates. Officials said the engagement process will include multiple events across the city as the study develops.
“The community engagement process will gather input from Chicagoans across the city to better understand Black Chicagoans’ experiences across generations and how systemic racism has shaped their lives, opportunities, and well-being.”
Similar efforts in other cities have moved beyond studies into direct payments. In Evanston, Illinois, officials approved reparations payments tied to housing assistance for eligible residents, a model that has drawn legal scrutiny and public debate.
Johnson has said the city is “at a crossroads” and must “essentially do more with less” as it navigates potential financial collapse. The current approach aligns a long-term policy initiative with ongoing budget shortfalls, without a defined cost structure or funding plan.
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If he wants to be more convincing, he shouldn’t cross his eyes so much.
He needs to cross the streams!
We should watch his eyes while making criminals, including him, pat reparations.
It’s oddly hypnotizing. Like a vampire. An incompetent vampire. Who’s a dash racist. A horror movie citizens can enjoy in real time.
That will keep them busy for a while.
I’m guessing he wasn’t a math major in college?
When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.
Being a math major isn’t necessary to understand that.
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Well basic math wouldn’t though right ? Like understanding negative numbers and the concept of zero. : ) clearly this guy needs a remedial course.
“…clearly this guy needs a remedial course”
That’s not all he needs.
It’s easily affordable. He’s going to use OTHER PEOPLES MONEY!
Easy peasy.
1931: William ‘Big Bill’ Thompson was the last Republican mayor of Chicago.
For nearly 100 years, the democrats have controlled that system.
Systemic racism. Look in the mirror, you clown.
This idiot’s salary in 2024 was 221k, I think that is enough reparations for this grifter.
I’m willing to agree to a one time reparations payment of, IDK, $1,000,000 with the caveat that none of the people or their descendants will ever be eligible for any type of welfare in the future.
Let me state that slavery is abhorant and evil. That being said, the vast majority of descendants of african americans slaves are much better off, financially, health wise and with a standard of living greatly exceeding the descendants of African who did not get abducted into slavery and who currently live in Africa.
No, it’s not. Even God mentions slaves as possessions in the Bible. And certain people are better suited to slavery, where their lives are laid out with some structure.. Some people do much better and are much happier under a more ‘structured’ existence. These same people are incapable of accepting a republican form of government, by-and-large.
Feminism, empathy over realty. This will work out well.
Who should be paying the reparations?
The descendants of white people that came to america after 1865?
The descendants of white people that fought on the union side?
The black peole that sold their own slaves to the slavers including the Muslims which still have slaves today
And literally cut their balls off
I’m so tired of blacks
Sorry, I am
Victim race hustlers
Black Anthony Johnson, first American slave owner. Imported beloved African tradition to America.
Probably grifter Brandon Johnson’s distinguished forefather.
The fatigue is real. And it wouldn’t exist if broads were denied the right to vote. Think about how many country-destroying Presidents the 19th Amendment gave us. Kennedy would never have been able to steal 1960 if not for women. No 1960 stolen election, no Lyndon Baines Johnson.
At least kennedy was anti-communist.
He’s the mayor of a city 40% of whose budget goes for city “worker” pensions + debt service, with 78% of property tax receipts going straight to pensions. They can’t even fund ongoing operations and he wants reparations? Ha ha ha ha!
That guy is one dumb SOB.
None of us has the least bit of influence over what happens in Chicago but I do have a voice in what happens when the house of cards comes tumbling down.
Not one red cent of federal aid.
Chicago should be made to dissolve as a city.
As far as reparations go, I’m a hard no on that. Even if you gave each inner city black a million dollars each, in ten years I’d wager that nearly all of them would be every bit as poor as they are today. Not because of their skin color, because this principle applies to the poor across all races, but because poverty is a result of poor decisions.
Under Illinois law, Chicago is forbidden from declaring bankruptcy. It will continue to spiral downward, with taxes rising and services being cut. By the way, if you look statewide at Illinois, the effect of the outmigration of higher income vs the immigration of lower incomes has already cut its tax base by 6.7%. Massachusetts has lost 7.4% of its tax base; New York, 4%; California, 3%.
These four states are the big liberal losers of population, but more importantly of the type of population that you don’t want to lose. Oregon isn’t far behind. The liberals who run these states are too stupid to see it, but over time it won’t matter.
“the type of population that you don’t want to lose”
Rich people who vote like morons, then abandon ship when it capsizes?
(Jack Benny voice): “I’m thinking! I’m thinking!”
You want people who are paying into the system, not leeching off of it.
Well, George Soros, Neville Roy Singham, and Hansjörg Wyss sure do pay into the system, and we’d be way better off without them.
Reparations AND Repatriation
Otherwise siddown and shaddup!
There were thousands of blacks who owned slaves in this country. Should their descendants get reparations? Todays blacks should sue the blacks in Africa who enslaved their ancestors and the muslims who ran the slave trade.
The slaves were the ones who lost tribal wars. Now the losers want to declare victimhood, and victory!
It’s going to be another looting of the treasury.
No way that some person is worthy to get reparations.
It’s a few generations separated and that 1 person has maybe 20 -100 decedent.
Tough days and tightened belts coming for many blue metros which refused to address their fiscal problems head on when it would have been easier to solve. Instead they kept on providing, expanding and over promising retirement benefits to buy votes and kicked the can down the road as far as they could. No bailout should be provided for these sorts of programs.
“Let them eat cake.” We know how that ended.
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A grifter knows a good grift when he sees it. Of course, they haven’t made much progress…you have to keep electing them paying his bribe to get your own bribe. Grifters flock like seagulls.
This clown has been running Chicago into the ground — like all of the Dhimmi-crats’ municipal leaders, nationwide — for the entirety of his rotten tenure.
Chicago is a crime-infested, dangerous, decaying and fiscally bankrupt den of iniquity, but, this dope has time and money to focus on racist, unlawful and idiotic conceits, such as “reparations?” What a farcical conceit, proffered by a totally contemptible fool.
Vinnie Goombah weighs in, “Some stronzo once tried to muscle me for reparations. You won’t see him no more.”
Have to keep the graft going. You can’t retire on just whatever he has in wealth now.
Look who is trying to change the subject of what a lawless hellhole his Soros prosecutor and sanctuary city status have made it. Karen Bass is one of the few I can think of that has been more incompetent than he is running a major city and it looks like she is going to be reelected although Mamdani is just getting warmed up.
Blacks will owe whites money. You have to look at the difference between blacks’ current cash flow from what their cash flow would have been in Africa, and pay it to whites.
This is why it is CRITICAL to elect a D as President. Ds will solve this reparations problem by just giving Chicago a billion $$$ (less 10% for overhead)
……… breaks down how Johnson won, how Chicagoans voted and what voter turnout looked like among different groups.
PAY ATTENTION TO THIS:
Sizable runoff wins in majority-Black precincts allowed Brandon Johnson to erase a 60,000-plus vote deficit from the February general election.
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners will continue to count ballots it receives — that were postmarked by April 4 — until April 18.
Election officials said there were 36,457 outstanding vote-by-mail ballots, but they did not expect all of these to be returned by the April 18 deadline.
Johnson gained ground while Vallas hit a ‘ceiling’
cheating???
“extra votes counted”????
whose goon challenge thattttt???
But it was Johnson’s wins in majority-Black precincts, where he gained more than 80,000 votes than he had in February, that allowed him to erase Vallas’ 60,000-plus vote lead from the general election.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/4/9/23674139/by-numbers-johnson-won-mayor-race-vallas-chicago
ohhh and just sarcastically posting this as to who was BJ’s opponent …how incompetent his opponent was and why BJgiver “deserved” to win:
During his tenure at CPS, Vallas led an effort to reform the school system. President Bill Clinton cited his work for raising test scores,[8] balancing the budget, instituting several new programs, including mandatory summer school, and after-school programs, and expanding alternative, charter, and magnet schools.[9] Under Vallas’s leadership, the use of standardized testing increased.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vallas
no wonder they choose BJ over this “lunatic”
all he did was demand competency …cant ask the blmplo community to adhere to those insane demands
the math should be easy from a most conservative calculation on how much money blacks have been NOT ONLY been given since 1970 but how much property destruction etc THEY OWE!! to the usa
Another reject from MENSA…
A great first step would be to actually educate black youth in CPS instead of graduating students who can’t read or do math.
thats like saying having the ability to have women throw a football with a tight spiral 60 yards downfield
Delusional thinking dwells deeply in the minds of these so-called pubic officials like the Mayor of Chicago. How many people will get shot in Chicago today? Reparations will do nothing to stop the killing.
And people thought lori lightbrain was bad….
he needs to lose the flying monkey haircut–surprised we haven’t seen/heard a witch cackling in the background
living proof that one can’t be too stupid to get elected in chicago
The Federal government spends $290B per year or 30% of the total in social programs for black communities while blacks provide 9% of all tax revenues, Department of Education prior to 2025 discretionary spending had $39B or 54% going to blacks. Compare this to the fact that blacks make up 14% of the population. This has been going on for 60 years yet the wealth gap between whites and blacks increased. Estimates to close this gap is $3T to $15T.
Considering the accumulates spending has already been $18T with the gap increasing, $15T won’t do anything and $1B won’t move the needle one iota as it’s $1300 per black in Chicago.
It’s time to face the fact that reparations simply buy the black vote and drive out non-black voters. It’s called job security for underperforming black politicians. Time to make this concept illegal.
I thought the goal of equity was so no one got anything more than someone else for nothing.
Three brutal facts: a) my family was not in the United States until > 70 years after the Civil War ended; b) my family never owned anybody else; and c) nobody alive who Brandon Johnson wants to receive reparations probably picked more than a thread of cotton off a shirt in their life. Reparations? Non-starter all the way around. No way.
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