The City Council will take a vote Thursday on Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed $300 million property tax hike, announced when he unveiled his $17.3 billion city budget for 2025 last month. That means ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joins a chorus of reforms advocates who have sounded the alarm about Johnson’s proposal ...

The proposed budget cuts would be a step backward for the CPD reform process at a pivotal point — just when progress is ...

The city, county, and state officials made sure to stop and honor the people who have protected our country this Veterans Day ...

Days after the Oct. 26 shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was publicly rebuked for issuing a perfunctory statement that made no mention of the victim’s ...

The external financial environment is set to worsen as the US Federal Reserve and other major central banks raise ... And the IMF should be subject to the same haircut as the other creditors.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago is facing a nearly one billion budget deficit for the year 2025. Due to this financial crisis, mayor Brandon Johnson says a property tax increase was unavoidable.

When the entire Board of Education resigned in October and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced their replacements, he said he hoped they could stay on the 21-seat board that will take office ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Activists and elected officials hosted a town hall Sunday calling for the firing of seven Chicago Police Department officers and a sergeant whose names were allegedly on a ...

CHICAGO — Members of the city council ... and 34 need to vote to suspend the rules in order to vote. Mayor Brandon Johnson late last month proposed a $300 million property tax hike in an effort ...

A majority of Chicago City Council members are critical of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase and want to force a vote on it sooner rather than later ...

Mayor Johnson’s second spending plan has already faced a series of hurdles that mark this as one of the most contentious fall budget seasons in recent years.