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Multiple government agencies displaced and evicted Section 14 residents over at least five major abatement campaigns between 1936 and 1965, with the city’s direct involvement beginning in 1948, according to the historical study.

She has also funded a trash abatement team and has plans to establish two teams of peace ambassadors whose job will be to reduce tension and gang violence.

Last year, the Office of Community Beautification, which operates a graffiti abatement program for the city, spent about $11 million to cover up roughly 32 million square feet of graffiti.

Farned urged residents to take take advantage of free vector control services including inspection and abatement of mosquito breeding sites at their homes.

What Chicago offered, however, were tax abatements and other benefits worth $60 million.