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Overall, the city ranked No. 131 in “Quality of Services”
scores, which included 36 metrics grouped into such categories
as financial stability, education, health, safety, economy and
infrastructure and pollution. Researchers also weighed the
effectiveness of local leadership, seeking to show how well city
leaders manage and spend public funds by analyzing the quality
of the services against the city's total budget.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently urged for more taxpayer
resources.
“In order for us to transform our communities, we have to have
fully funded neighborhood schools, we have to ensure that health
care and mental health care is available for our people,”
Johnson said. “We have to build more affordable housing.”
State Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, feared things may get worse
before they get better.
“They think that government investment is the answer and that
would require increased taxation and that’s just going to
compound the problem exponentially,” Ugaste told The Center
Square.
Ugaste also worried the city’s crime is a major factor.
“And if you have crime out of control, you’re never going to
have the economy that you should,” he said. “That’s a start.”
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling recently said
they’re taking a targeted approach to address crime.
“We will be looking at those locations where we're seeing the
most and the most violent crime. We will be focused on that,”
Snelling said. “We're building better cases so when we have
people who we know are very violent repeat offenders, we will be
trying to get those people off the street as soon as possible
and we will try to keep them off of the streets.”
In the WalletHub survey, San Francisco ranked at the bottom,
with New York at No. 145 and Los Angeles at No. 139.
Greg Bishop contributed to this report.
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