Chicago mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green. | Dan T. Delson / Wikimedia Commons
Chicago mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green. | Dan T. Delson / Wikimedia Commons
“Most of this taxpayer money will be (profit) while migrants will get slop,” Former Mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green said in a statement on Platform X after the announcement was made.
On Jan. 26, Mayor Johnson announced Chicago taxpayers would fund two contracts to feed illegal aliens he invited to the city.
“Seventy-Seven Communities,” owned by the family that owns Buona Beef, a popular Italian Beef chain, will receive $45 million to feed homeless illegal aliens living among Chicago north side residents.
Hyde Park-based “14 Parish” will receive $57 million to feed homeless illegal aliens living on Chicago’s South Side.
Founded in west suburban Berwyn in 1981 by Joe and Peggy Buonavolanto, Buona Beef has 29 restaurants in Illinois and Indiana.
14 Parish is a Caribbean-style “restaurant and rhum bar” in Hyde Park owned by Raquel Fields. It first opened in 2016.
Green, 28, is a self-described “Black Lives Matter” activist who ran unsuccessfully for Chicago Mayor in 2019 and 2023. A Phillips H.S. graduate, he served as a surrogate for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primary.
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