Rapper Vic Mensa joined Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle at a Thursday information convention concerned with encouraging other folks to lend a hand restore small companies that have been looted or vandalized, however the singer and activist stated that if other folks truly need to blank up the group, “don’t wait until it burns down.” The Chicago rapper stated the “real looting” is the universities closed at the South and West Sides, whilst a brand new police academy is being deliberate and the black our bodies “stolen by police officers in our city and across our nation.” Mensa and Preckwinkle spoke on the East 47th Street headquarters of Mensa’s SaveMoneySaveLife Foundation, which guarantees to make use of artwork
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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle touts ‘arduous
The Cook County Board overwhelmingly accepted a virtually $6.2 billion price range Thursday, over the objections of 1 holdout commissioner who warned that “rate of growth and spending is not sustainable for the long term fiscal health” of the county. The price range was balanced with no layoffs or tax will increase and even added some workers engaged on taxpayer appeals of property assessments and expunging previous hashish convictions. But the spending blueprint did minimize 638 vacant well being care positions, regardless of an emergency nurse’s warning that these cuts “hurt my patients.” Despite the ripples of dissent, the board voted 15-1, with one absence, to approve its fiscal plan for subsequent yr. Preckwinkle mentioned it