On Tuesday, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced an emergency relief fund for businesses and 1099 workers in suburban Cook County.
Cook County will seed an initial $10 million for the fund, which will grant loans to gig workers and small businesses to weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
The creation of this fund comes days after Preckwinkle announced the county's new technical assistance network with the American Business Immigration Coalition, the Illinois Restaurant Association and the National Partnership for New Americans to help suburban small businesses and contract workers quickly and . . .