The Chicago City Council emphatically voted down Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to hike property taxes by $300 million Thursday, creating a yawning hole in the city’s 2025 budget that must now be closed ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is all but giving up on his proposed $300 million property tax hike before aldermen kill it, and ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is all but giving up on his proposed $300 million property tax hike before aldermen kill it, and pushing them to find other revenue in its place to avert layoffs. Johnson’s ...

All six board members the mayor selected last month are eligible to remain on the 21-seat board that will take office in ...

The Chicago City Council plans to gather for a special meeting Thursday afternoon. At the center of it all, is Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed $300 million property tax hike. The mayor says it is ...

The Editorial Board met with the mayor for the first time since his election and appreciated the opportunity. Here are our ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson, who campaigned for Kamala Harris this past weekend in North Carolina, is reflecting on the election, with one day left. Monday afternoon, he sat down for an ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share 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 ...

The scrappy David-and-Goliath messaging belied some of the criticism the CTU has gotten for becoming too powerful since its chosen mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson won the 2023 runoff ...

Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with a $300 million property tax increase, aldermen pelted the mayor’s finance ... was the possibility Johnson won’t have the ...

Due to this financial crisis, mayor Brandon Johnson says a property tax increase was unavoidable. The proposed $346 million property tax hike would go towards the city's long-term obligations ...