Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has launched the city's Healthy Chicago 2025 initiative with one goal in mind.

"Everyone in our city deserves the chance to live a long, healthy life," Lightfoot tweeted of the program first launched in 2020, boasting of prioritizing racial and health equity in order to reduce the gap between blacks and whites. "Our Healthy Chicago 2025 initiative is working to close the racial life expectancy gap and improve the well-being of black and brown Chicagoans."

According to the city website, the goal of the program is highlighted as ensuring that everyone in the city “has power, is free from oppression and is empowered by fair access to all things, places and opportunities that support ideal health and well-being by changing procedures and policies to promote multicultural and anti-racist systems, focusing on youth leadership within the community, increasing the vitality and health of all neighborhoods, among other important changes, according to a statement from the Chicago Department of Public Health.”

In a statement, The Chicago Department of Public Health further describes the focus of the program as a plan to prioritize areas such as housing, access to food, public safety, neighborhood development and more among the black and Latinx populations facing challenges ranging from financial to environmental issues.