Reopening city’s mental health clinics will be an important early test for Mayor Brandon Johnson
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.A sign placed by Occupy Chicago and Mental Health Movement protesters at the closed Northwest Mental Health Clinic in Logan Square is seen May 10, 2012. Then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered six of the 12 city-run clinics in 2012.
“What’s really amazed me has been the degree to which the question of the closure of the clinics and the struggle around trying to prevent that has remained fixed in people’s political imagination in the 10 years since,” he said. “And the other thing is, Mayor Lightfoot campaigned on four years ago, and we did not endorse Lori Lightfoot,” Lindall continued.That wasn’t a political consideration. And Brandon Johnson campaigned on it this time around and we remained neutral in the primary. So this is really about the policy for us.”Rahm Emanuel closed half of Chicago's mental health clinics.
And he said there’s better transparency when the city is running the facilities, allowing the public to see what kind of care patients are receiving and how funds are being spent.
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