On Wednesday’s broadcast of Chicago’s WCPT 820’s “Driving it Home,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the city is “literally paying artists,” “to create these activities that ultimately provide the type of mental health support that’s so critical, right? With so many things that are going on and so much anxiety as Donald Trump has, essentially militarized the ICE agents and has increased their budget to the extent to which the only other two budgets that are bigger than ICE are the militaries of the United States of America and China.” And there are around 200 artists they’re paying.
While discussing mental health services in the city, Johnson said, “[W]e’re also connecting mental health towards what we call our Healing Arts Chicago program, working with the
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