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ALT 1. Text: Mayor Johnson Breaks Ground on South Side Non-Congregate Shelter for Homeless Youth. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson, Alderman Ronnie Mosley, DFSS Commissioner Angela Green, DOH Commissioner Lissette Castaneda, Deputy Mayor Arturo Carrillo, and Unity Parenting's Constance Colin break ground on a non-congregate shelter on the site of a vacant former hotel in Branierd on the South Side.

ALT 2. Text: The $6.2 million redevelopment by Unity Parenting and Counseling will transform a former Brainerd motel into 26 non-congregate units for young adults ages 18-24 experiencing homelessness. Image: Mayor Johnson hugs a young Black woman in a school hallway.

ALT 1. Text: Mayor Brandon Johnson Signs Order Establishing Senior Bill of Rights & Mayor’s Office of Aging. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson shakes hands with a male Black senior citizen in a baseball cap seated in his walker at a Senior Home around the holidays.

ALT 2. Text: Mayor Johnson’s executive order directs City government to proactively address challenges facing senior residents while identifying gaps in City services and programs supporting senior Chicagoans. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson shakes hands with a group of Asian women senior residents, all seated, while visiting a senior home in Chinatown.

ALT 3. Text: The order also establishes a Mayor’s Office on Aging (MOA), which will work to coordinate and expand access to City services affecting senior residents and to re-establish the Department of Aging. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson excitedly smiling holds up his three fingers while talking a group of senior residents on the South Side.

ALT "4. Text: Mayor Johnson’s order builds on years of organizing by Alder Jeanette Taylor, KOCO, and the Senior Bill of Rights Coalition. The Senior Bill of Rights affirms the fundamental rights of every Chicagoan age 60 and older, including City services, safe housing, and quality healthcare. Learn more at chi.gov/seniors-rights. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson holds up his Executive Order, flanked by a large group including Alders Jeanette Taylor, Lamont Robinson, Pat Dowell, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, and Angela Clay, DFSS Commissioner Angela Green, Deputy Mayor Arturo Carrillo, KOCO Executive Director Shannon Bennett and other KOCO staff, SBOR Coalition members Lavenua Hood and Wilma Pittman, and many other seniors and advocates at the KOCO Headquarters in Bronzeville."

ALT 1. Screenshot of The Triibe Article. Headline: Chicago Invested in a record 32,500 youth jobs this summer. Here's why it matters. By Tiffany Walden. Published on September 2, 2026. Image: A group of young Black teenagers pose in front of a food booth they are working at the Taste of Chicago, wearing matching Chicago Youth Works branded t-shirts.

ALT 2. Text excerpt from the Triibe article: Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that his administration made a record-breaking investment in youth this summer under the rebranded Chicago Youth Works. The city funded more than 32,500 paid opportunities for teens and young adults, the highest annual total in Chicago history, Johnson said. “This is part of the hallmark, if you will, of my administration, investing in young people. I have made this case repeatedly that when we invest in our young people, when we invest in our communities, it creates safer neighborhoods,” Johnson said. According to Johnson’s administration, the city hired 10,866 CYW youth directly to the mayor’s office, aldermanic offices and sister agencies including the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA).

ALT 3. Text excerpt from the Triibe article: According to Johnson’s administration, the city has seen declines in shootings, homicides and violent crime in the five community areas where the greatest number of Chicago Youth Works participants were hired from. For example, from 2024 to Aug. 18, 2026, all violent crime in North Lawndale is down 42.8%. According to WTTW, Chicago saw its fewest homicides across any such month in more than a decade. In 2025, Chicago saw its lowest homicide total in 60 years. “My goal is to create year-round opportunities for young people, and though summers are an important, pivotal time for our young people, especially because school is out and we want to make sure that they are developing even while school is out,” Johnson explained, “but the long-term goal is to create more of these opportunities year-round because the need doesn’t go away because the season has changed.”

ALT 4. Text excerpt from the Triibe article: Chicago businesswoman Tammy Brownlee employed about 150 youth this summer through her Prime for Change nonprofit...“Listen. I remember being a child in the city of Chicago, and we weren’t given these opportunities. Not at this level,” said Brownlee, a South Side native... “For every youth that we have in one of these programs, that’s one less youth doing something that they should not be doing. They’re learning skills that’s going to help them be a better person, and live a better life more than anything. So the investments that [the city] makes at 100 percent, they pay off 100 percent.” The Johnson administration reports a 69.8% increase in the number of youth who identified as justice-involved. Brownlee said all of the youth in her Prime for Change program were from Chicago’s South Side. She said Prime for Change retained 95% of the youth who joined the program. “If we don’t invest in the youth, who will? If you just [give up on them], that

ALT Text: Latine Heritage Month. Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson. Background: A 5x4 grid of elaborately designed tiles in a Latin American mosaic style.

ALT "2. Text: La Casa Norte’s North Hotel will include 40 private rooms, operate 24/7, and provide a comprehensive array of services to support young adults experiencing homelessness. Image: Mayor Johnson shakes hands with a diverse group of young people at La Casa Norte's North Hotel groundbreaking in Humboldt Park."

ALT 3. Text: Backed by the City and Alder Jessie Fuentes, the North Hotel expands Chicago’s shelter capacity while advancing a service model centered on privacy, dignity, healing, and long-term stability. Image: Mayor Johnson, Alder Jessie Fuentes, Deputy Mayor Max Budovitch, Commissioner Lissette Castaneda and Angela Green, La Casa Norte CEO Jose Munoz, community leaders and local youth pose for a photo outside La Casa Norte's North Hotel after the groundbreaking in Humboldt Park.

ALT 1. Text: Mayor Johnson, Lyft & United Way Provide Seniors with Transportation Assistance After Recent Grocery Store Closures. Image: Mayor Johnson embraces an older Black woman in a motorized wheelchair at a senior home visit.

ALT 2. Text: The new partnership provides up to $50 in Lyft ride credits for eligible seniors following the recent closure of Yellow Banana grocery stores on the South and West Sides. Image: Mayor Johnson shakes hands with a seated older Black woman with white braids during a senior home visit.

ALT 3. Text: The initiative provides immediate relief for impacted older adults while the Johnson administration continues working on long-term solutions to strengthen food access. Image: Mayor Johnson embraces and older woman as an older man looks on during a church visit.

ALT "4. Text: Eligible seniors age 60 or older and living in certain zip codes on the South and West Sides can call 2-1-1 between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to request transportation assistance. Learn more at chi.gov/senior-grocery-rides. Image: Mayor Johnson smiles for a photo with a seated older Black woman at an alumni cookout on the South Side."