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Lightfoot delays budget address until October 21, giving Congress more time to help

OCTOBER 6, 2020 | by Fran Spielman | CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

By Fran Spielman, includes “Mayor Lori Lightfoot is pushing back her 2021 budget address — until Oct. 21 — to give Congress more time to ride to the rescue. … … Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Reiter said it makes sense to hold off. The federation has an ownership stake in the Sun-Times. ‘We haven’t seen anything like this in a hundred years. … The type of federal stimulus that could be on the table could be extraordinary for state and local government,’ Reiter said.”

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