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Chicago Is Broke, but the Mayor Is Floating Another Plan for Reparations
Townhall ^ | 07/23/2026 | Amy Curtis

Posted on 07/24/2026 3:42:43 AM PDT by DFG

The city of Chicago is billions of dollars in debt, including $36 billion in pension debt. The Chicago Public School district also has a budget deficit of more than $700 million. Despite these very dire fiscal parameters, Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to spend more taxpayer money to give reparations to areas where ICE conducted immigration enforcement raids.

"I believe the most relevant ballot referendum question around receiving reparations for communities that experienced that hardship, and whether that was on the west side of Chicago or the black man being placed in an illegal chokehold or long guns being stuck into the faces of women and children, zip-tied and thrown into vehicles. Kidnapped, shot at. I mean, police officers, tear gas, right?" Johnson said. "So the updated policy in the spirit of my executive order, there's greater alignment to create a pathway to accountability."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: amycurtis; blackkk; brandonjohnson; chicago; demagogicparty; dsa; illinois; jbpritzker; reparations; townhall

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1 posted on 07/24/2026 3:42:43 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

All they know is the grift.


2 posted on 07/24/2026 3:49:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: DFG
...there's greater alignment to create a pathway to accountability...

We all agree that Whitey owes us. Big time.
3 posted on 07/24/2026 3:58:06 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: DFG
...including $36 billion in pension debt.

Call it welfare and it'll never go broke.

4 posted on 07/24/2026 3:59:09 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Doesn’t the mayor have a budget of 150 million for his 90 security officers? I hope the feds are no dice on a bailout. We are struggling in Michigan for our selves.


5 posted on 07/24/2026 4:01:14 AM PDT by healy61
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To: DFG

Let’s Grift, Brandon.


6 posted on 07/24/2026 4:40:55 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: DFG

The “voters” in chicongo should be ashamed of voting for this pathetic, incompetent, leftist loser. That said...thanks for the ongoing entertainment for those of us who chose not to live there. LOL!


7 posted on 07/24/2026 4:42:46 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ClearCase_guy; DFG; ComputerGuy; Libloather; Lazamataz

Great commentary on reparations.

https://x.com/MrReaganUSA/status/2079972173100486960?s=20

Hey
@grok
.
Considering the vast amounts of money that White Americans have paid in taxes over the past 200 years or so, and considering the amount of welfare and services that have gone directly to black Americans, and considering all of the private charity dedicated to black Americans as well as all of the benefits from affirmative action and DEI, try to estimate the amount of wealth that had been transferred from White Americans to black Americans over the years. Keep your response very brief and provide a number. A rough estimate will suffice.

That’s the start to a discussion with Grok AI. It’s quite interesting and revealing.


8 posted on 07/24/2026 4:46:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DFG

I wonder what the tipping point will be?


9 posted on 07/24/2026 5:06:08 AM PDT by dynachrome (“They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi; they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.”)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And buying votes! Gee, do illegals vote?


10 posted on 07/24/2026 5:07:58 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: DFG

This is coming to America far and wide. The next Dem POTUS will be one of these types.


11 posted on 07/24/2026 5:08:35 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: DFG

“...including $36 billion in pension debt...”

Notice how they always steal from workers who earned their money, in order to waste more and more on the useless wastes of Oxygen...


12 posted on 07/24/2026 5:21:53 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: DFG

blacks involved in reparations , of course , Stealing other peoples money . Pretending to be a slave to collect money , isn’t that against the law ?


13 posted on 07/24/2026 5:23:51 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: DFG

It is time for all African questionable descendants of slaves to pay back the American people who have been carrying their asses for 250 years. If it wasn’t for white folks, they all would have starved to death a long time ago and we wouldn’t have to put up with this “reparations” BS.


14 posted on 07/24/2026 6:17:20 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The crap going on in America ISN'T immigration. It's friggin' colonization. America is falling.)
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To: DFG

It’s amazing to think with all the severe problems Chicago has, their mayor is pushing reparations for slavery , as the major issue he wants to work on.


15 posted on 07/24/2026 6:39:32 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DFG

Paying “reparations” will guarantee that blacks continue to fail for hundreds of years in the future. They will have no incentive to work hard and become productive. They will continue to blame their failure on Whitey, until the last Whitey is dead and his money is gone — taken to pay reparations.


16 posted on 07/24/2026 6:42:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. Remember Iryna Zarutska and Justine Damond.)
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To: DFG

Brandon smells trouble so he needs the reparation distraction ,LOL


17 posted on 07/24/2026 7:07:04 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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