Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez and a group of public health advocates slammed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s response to the COVID-19 crisis during a news conference Sunday in Little Village, claiming that federal relief money has disproportionately gone to contractors and consultants instead of schools and the city’s most vulnerable communities.
Dr. Howard Ehrman, a former assistant commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, has remained a vocal critic of the city’s pandemic response as an organizer of the People’s Response Network, a grassroots organization dedicated to building up the agency he previously worked for.
