Needy Chicagoans vying for $500 monthly payments, no strings attached, will have nearly three weeks to apply for a city lottery used to choose 5,000 participants.
Six months after the City Council agreed to use $31.5 million in federal pandemic relief money to launch the nation’s largest universal basic income program, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration on Wednesday fleshed out the nitty-gritty details.
