• Erin Hegarty
    APR 20, 2022
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    Key committee set to consider Lightfoot’s $12.5M gas and transit relief program again after tweaks

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    Chicago Chief Financial Officer Jennie Huang Bennett and Ald. Walter Burnett (27) speak during a committee meeting earlier this month.

    Aldermen are set on Wednesday to consider approving the third version of a proposal from Mayor Lori Lightfoot to give away prepaid gas gift cards and transit cards as fuel prices remain high. It marks the mayor’s second attempt to win aldermen’s approval for the plan after it hit a wall earlier this month.

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