Cook County Treasurer's Office - 4/12/2021
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When the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum last year, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas used her role in county government to put her own spin on it.
Since March 2020, Pappas has given back $50 million to the African American community and $24 million to the Hispanic community through her outreach efforts, including her own show on a local radio station, as well as a successful live Phone Bank hosted by ABC 7 Chicago.
"We are restoring money to people's pockets in an extraordinarily unfortunate pandemic," she said.
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