Daywatch: An important early test for Mayor Johnson
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inauguration pledge to reopen Chicago’s city-run mental health clinics puts him on the clock to deliver a win for advocates who have been waging that fight for more than a decade.
It also sets him up to make good on a longtime goal of one of his strong union supporters, by creating jobs at the clinics for members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Whether he follows through could be one of the most important Rorschach tests on how Johnson’s first term gets viewed.
To appreciate the existential parameters of this fight, head back to 2012. That’s when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered six of the 12 city-run clinics.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s John Byrne.
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