{"id":1303,"date":"2020-05-15T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:20:34","slug":"mayor-lightfoot-awards-grants-to-nearly-1000-microbusinesses-impacted-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/mayor-lightfoot-awards-grants-to-nearly-1000-microbusinesses-impacted-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lightfoot Awards Grants To Nearly 1,000 Microbusinesses Impacted By COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mayor Lightfoot and Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP)\u00a0announced Thursday that $5,000 grants have been awarded to nearly 1,000 microbusinesses that have been impacted by the COVID-19\u00a0outbreak through the $5 million Microbusiness Recovery Grant Program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Mayor\u2019s Office, through this program, 959 microbusinesses from across 36 low- and moderate-income community areas have received a grant of $5,000 just one week after applications closed for the program on Monday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p>This latest measure not only builds on the city\u2019s unprecedented $105 million in COVID-19 relief funding for Chicago businesses, but also Mayor Lightfoot\u2019s INVEST South\/West initiative that\u2019s designed to support local businesses on Chicago\u2019s South and West Sides by investing $750 million over three years in neighborhoods that have historically been disinvested in for decades.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/wbbm780.radio.com\/articles\/mayor-awards-grants-to-nearly-1000-microbusinesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mayor Lightfoot and Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP)\u00a0announced Thursday that $5,000 grants have been awarded to nearly 1,000 microbusinesses that have been impacted by the COVID-19\u00a0outbreak through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-covid-19"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}