Crime is up, Chicago is facing a half-billion-dollar budget deficit, and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing the city every year. Mayor Brandon Johnson has a solution: city-owned grocery stores.
“We know access to grocery stores is already a challenge for many residents, especially on the South and West sides,” he said at a press conference announcing the project. “I am proud to work alongside partners to take this step in envisioning what a municipally owned store in Chicago could look like.
A government store in a small town where everyone knows everyone else is one thing. You can’t walk into the only grocery in a town of a thousand people, empty the shelves, and leave without paying. Your fellow citizens, the store owners, will track you down. Johnson claims Chicago taxpayers will not pay for any store expenses. Apparently state and federal grants are being lined up to fund the opening. “It’s not necessarily about profitability,” Johnson’s policy chief Umi Grigsby told reporters. “It really is about what is the impact on Chicagoans.”
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