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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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 ...
'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 ...
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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 ...
Editorial: The alliance against Mayor Brandon Johnson on zoning is justified
Opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s nomination of progressive firebrand Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez as chair of the City Council ...
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 ...
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Police and fire departments now exempt from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hiring freeze
Facing a burgeoning budget crisis, Johnson on Monday froze hiring and travel and eliminated overtime “not directly required ...
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Chicago faces $982 million budget shortfall for 2025, Mayor Brandon Johnson says
CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson is projecting a $982 million ... "The chickens have come home to roost. It is time to get busy," said Joe Ferguson, president of the Civic Federation, a ...
Chicago Halts Hiring as Deficit Tops $1 Billion Through 2025
Chicago is freezing hiring and curbing other expenses to help close more than $1 billion in budget shortfalls through next year for the nation’s third-largest city.Most Read from BloombergHow American ...