JUST IN: Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson committed to reopening the publicly run mental health clinics closed more than a decade ago by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in an interview with HeatherCherone of WTTW News.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson committed to reopening the publicly run mental health clinics closed more than a decade ago by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in an interview with WTTW News on Friday.
“I understand those demands for change as evidence that the city’s political system has been a disappointment for some time,” Johnson said, acknowledging that many Chicagoans question whether true change is even achievable.Johnson will also have to decide whether to continue operating what Lightfoot dubbed the city’s network of Trauma-Informed Centers of Care, which includes 44 organizations that got tens of millions of dollars to in 2022.
Johnson has promised to fire Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady, the architect of that network. Before she became the face of the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she clashed with progressive City Council members over whether the clinics should be reopened.
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