Editorial: Aldermen must force Mayor Brandon Johnson to find solutions other than a massive property tax hike
The Editorial Board met with the mayor for the first time since his election and appreciated the opportunity. Here are our ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson weighs in on presidential election, CPS Board fallout
Mayor Brandon Johnson, who campaigned for Kamala Harris this past weekend in North Carolina, is reflecting on the election, ...
Mayor Johnson to announce property tax hike as part of 2025 budget despite campaign promises
As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his 2024 budget address during a City Council meeting Wednesday, he is expected to ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s school board president, under fire for controversial social media posts, resigns
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board president resigned Thursday after coming under fire for social media posts ...
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Mayor Johnson's $300M property tax hike won't fix city's financial woes
Mayor Brandon Johnson unveil his proposed budget for 2025, which includes a $300 million property tax increase, to the City Council. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share When it comes to funding public ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes $300 million property tax hike to help close $1 billion budget gap
CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing a $300 million property tax hike in 2025, going back on a key campaign promise, as he seeks to close a massive budget shortfall of nearly $1 billion.
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Mayor floats property-tax increase to cover budget shortfall
Chicago Mayor Brandon ... for Johnson’s approach, attributing the city’s financial pressures to decades of “mismanagement” and deferred revenue options. The plan is drawing plenty ...
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Sources: Mayor Brandon Johnson will propose property tax increase when he presents 2025 budget this week
CHICAGO — While campaigning to be mayor prior to his election in April 2023, Brandon Johnson repeatedly vowed he would not raise city property taxes. But with Chicago facing a budget deficit of ...
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Letters: Mayor Brandon Johnson should take a lesson from George Constanza
I have a suggestion for Mayor Brandon Johnson. Facing a record-low 14% approval ... I recently returned from Europe where I saw the Venice International Art Biennale whose theme was “Foreigners ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson names all new CPS school board after mass resignations
Mayor Brandon Johnson ... on Friday was a stunner, drawing concern from city and state officials. The resignations were preceded by months of strife between Johnson, the teachers union and CPS ...
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Johnson's CPD budget could threaten progress on reforms required under court-ordered consent decree
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson is promising progress, but his budget for the Chicago Police Department could threaten the progress on police reforms required under the court-ordered ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s CPD budget plan cuts constitutional policing, other reform offices: ‘It’s a gutting’
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget plan for Chicago police slashes several offices that are critical to the ongoing federal consent decree, sparking alarm from policing experts who say now is not the ...