BREAKING🚨 Chicago just became the FIRST city in the country to CUT OFF city funding for those helping ICE, committing wage theft, or discriminating. Mayor Brandon Johnson signed the sweeping executive order Wednesday, citing an "unprecedented level of corporate corruption." Chicago currently holds $3.19 billion in contracts with 42 companies that also do business with ICE, according to research from the national campaign that pushed for the order. The single biggest is with AECOM, the infrastructure consultant overseeing the modernization of O'Hare. Every current and future contractor and subcontractor now has to certify it hasn't committed a "public integrity violation" in the past five years and doesn't intend to for the length of the contract. City code already bars contractors convicted of theft, deceit, hate crimes, perjury or treason, but only after a courtroom conviction. The new order counts a finding by an inspector general or an auditor too. Companies also have to disclose any allegations of excessive force, unlawful detention, unconstitutional policing or discrimination connected to their government contracts. Those disclosures become public, and they can trigger action against the company. Johnson's team named Palantir. The data company profits from ICE contracts and the war in Gaza, and it is among the corporations footing the bill for Trump's ballroom under construction at the White House. "We're recognizing that these companies may be engaging in corrupt activities, but for a variety of reasons may not be subject to criminal penalties. Nonetheless, we don't want them doing business with the city of Chicago," said Sheila Bedi, Johnson's chief strategy officer. The order creates a 12-member Ethical Procurement Standards Task Force and requires companies making more than $1 billion a year to disclose the makeup of their leadership and boards, after the federal EEOC signaled it could stop requiring demographic data at all. Every company also has to report what it's doing to hire and promote formerly incarcerated people. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.