Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th), chairman of the City Council’s Hispanic Caucus and Mayor Lori Lightfoot's former floor leader, said 5,000 of Chicago’s neediest families would have been collecting $500 monthly checks since last spring, if only Lightfoot hadn’t dragged her feet on the ordinance he championed.

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