Chicago's mayor wants to create city-run grocery stores to promote 'equitable' access to food after half of the city's and Whole Foods stores closed. Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to open municipally-owned grocery stores in Chicago in a bid to tackle many of the city's so-called 'food deserts.' Johnson's new moves are set to help 'repair past harms that have contributed to purposeful disinvestment and exclusion and lack of food access' in historically underserved communities.
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