Mayor Lightfoot’s tweaked gas card giveaway plan goes before Chicago City Council Budget Committee

CHICAGO (WLS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s revised plan for a gas card giveaway goes before the City Council’s Budget Committee Wednesday.

Mayor Lightfoot has tweaked the plan and an earlier version failed to advance because some critics saw it as a political stunt.

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The revised ordinance would reserve 75% of the $12.5 million gas card lottery for residents of South and West side neighborhoods that the mayor has defined as “high mobility hardship” and he remaining 25% would be distributed city-wide.

The ordinance calls for distributing up to 100,000 prepaid transit cards and up to 50,000 prepaid gas cards.

Each prepaid gas card will be loaded with $150 and each prepaid transit card will be loaded with $50.