Chicago alders to mayor: Cut municipal spending to pre-pandemic levels
In 2020, the city budget was $11.7 billion. The Chicago budget for 2025 proposed by Mayor Brandon Johnson exceeds $17 billion ...
Trump supporter slams Chicago mayor to his face moments before City Council rejected tax hike: ‘The feds need to address you’
Ahead of a Chicago City Council vote unanimously rejecting Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax hike, ...
Editorial: Mayor Johnson’s property tax hike was defeated by a score of 50-0. Now the real work begins.
Time to start over on Chicago’s budget after the remarkable 50-0 City Council vote to kill Brandon Johnson’s $300 million ...
Trump supporters rip Chicago mayor to his face just before City Council rejects his tax hike
Conservative Chicago residents ripped Mayor Brandon Johnson to his face at a Chicago City Council meeting this week, blasting ...
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Chicago Mayor’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Debt Plan for the District
Though its educators were already the highest-paid in the country, the district agreed to what then-Mayor ... Chicago ...
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What Happened When Chicago’s Mayor Followed a Teachers’ Union Playbook
That was then. Now, Chicago is in the midst of a radically different experiment: What would happen if one of the nation’s feistiest teachers’ unions was able to elevate the mayor of its choice ...
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$300M property tax hike in Chicago mayor’s 2025 budget proposal, but no layoffs
City Council has until the end of the year to approve a budget that now ... to Chicago homeowners. City Council did approve a $588 million property tax hike in 2015 under then-Mayor Rahm ...
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Chicago mayor's police budget plan cuts constitutional policing, other reform offices: ‘It’s a gutting’
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson ... “We reduced sworn positions and then increased nonsworn positions, and now we’re eliminating nonsworn positions and saying, ‘Don’t worry about ...
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Mayor floats property-tax increase to cover budget shortfall
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is set to unveil a budget ... but union leaders including Chicago Federation of Labor’s Bob Reiter pushed back. Now, the budget largely avoids cuts that require ...
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Chicago mayor condemns shooting of Jewish man but omits religious identity, drawing ire
JTA — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson condemned the shooting ... The suspect, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, then engaged in a shootout with police. “On behalf of the City of Chicago, our heartfelt ...