
Chicago neighborhoods being overlooked for violence prevention funds for having 'too much wealth': lawmaker
Fox News
An Illinois lawmaker is highlighting shootings and other violence in parts of the Chicago known as being wealthier areas and says those neighborhoods are being overlooked or deemed ineligible for state and federal violence prevention grants for having "too much wealth."
"It’s just out of control," the assistant majority leader told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "The higher taxes you pay, the less services your community gets."
"We're trying to maintain that sense of safety, but I have people now that are getting carjacked during the day, during the day. We have store fronts of businesses that are been shot and bullets going through them during the day," he later added. "I can't even feel comfortable at my office because two blocks west of me, U.S. Bank got a bullet in the front window … at 2:39 p.m."