Mayor Brandon Johnson hints at return of guaranteed income program

Yessenia Cervantes-Vázquez, a lead community health worker with Rush Community Health Center helped residents apply for the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot, in the basement of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in the Pilsen neighborhood, Saturday afternoon, April 30, 2022. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A program that provided direct cash assistance to 5,000 Chicago residents in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic could return to City Hall.

In recent remarks to reporters, Mayor Brandon Johnson said he would like to bring back a version of the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot, though he did not provide figures for how much it would cost or how the program would work.