Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle gives her 2024 budget address on Oct. 5, 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said Thursday that $70 million in funding that the county has pledged to help make up a gap in funding to care for new arrivals would come from the county’s newly created disaster fund. 

A resolution to authorize the spending (24-2103) was introduced during Thursday’s county board of commissioners meeting and referred to the Finance Committee.