Editorial: With ShotSpotter’s looming demise, Brandon Johnson turns his back on neighborhoods whose votes made him mayor
By insisting on ending ShotSpotter in neighborhoods torn by gun violence, Mayor Brandon Johnson is rejecting the wishes of ...
Ald. Silvana Tabares: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership needs a lesson in math
It’s an age-old maxim to say politics is a game of addition, not subtraction. Coalition building is about bringing people ...
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Mayor Johnson Launches $230M Affordable Housing Developments in Chicago's West Garfield Park and Near South Side
Mayor Brandon Johnson announces two Chicago housing developments funded by new HED bonds, enhancing affordable housing in the ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson asked CPS CEO Pedro Martinez to resign: sources
FOX 32 Chicago has learned that Mayor Brandon Johnson asked the CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for his resignation this ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson tells Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to resign, sources say
Multiple sources told ABC7 Chicago that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has told Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez he ...
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City Council Is Seeing Red With Johnson’s Ranks
Brandon Johnson is playing politics as his predecessors did, like appointing loyal organizers. But the flavor of his politics ...
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Showdown over ShotSpotter looms as City Council approves new measure to keep it running
The City Council approved a last-ditch effort today over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objection to try to keep the city’s gunshot detection system, ShotSpotter, up and running just days before it ...
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Some aldermen warn ShotSpotter veto could blow up budget negotiations between mayor, city council
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed to veto an ordinance that would keep ShotSpotter gun detection technology in place, but supporters in council are not ready to give up the fight ...
Chicago City Council deals major blow to Mayor Johnson on ShotSpotter
The acrimony between Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago City Council grows as he issues a rare veto on their vote to defy ...
Alders vote to give city’s top cop control over future of ShotSpotter, mayor says he’ll veto measure
With a 33-14 vote, the City Council passed a measure giving police Supt. Larry Snelling power over the contract. But with the ...
Three City Council leaders demand ouster of top mayoral aide who called police 'f---ing pigs'
In podcast interviews in 2021 and earlier this year, Johnson aide and former executive director of United Working Families ...
'Upon further review,' police and fire departments exempt from Brandon Johnson's hiring freeze
Facing a burgeoning budget crisis, Johnson on Monday froze hiring and travel and eliminated overtime “not directly required ...