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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mariah Woelfel

Mayor’s team will scrap INVEST South/West name, but not its aims

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks about the INVEST South/West program at the announcement of the winners of the second round of the City’s INVEST South/West Requests for Proposals (RFP) program at Back Of The Yards College Prep in 2021. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s signature development program INVEST South/West will be no more, at least in name, under Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration. 

While Johnson’s team is still evaluating the program, it may take “a very different path” toward investing in the South and West sides, one that won’t be dubbed INVEST South/West, according to Kenya Merritt, Johnson’s deputy mayor of business and neighborhood development,

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