Editorial: With ShotSpotter’s looming demise, Brandon Johnson turns his back on neighborhoods whose votes made him mayor
We’ve seen plenty of Chicago mayors do things that turned out to be wildly unpopular in retrospect. Richard M. Daley’s ...
Chicago Sun-Times5d
Raise haze — facing a $1 billion budget gap, Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t said if he’ll take a pay hike next year
Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions after a press conference to celebrate the Chicago Classic at Soldier Field Monday. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Elected city officials are slated to ...
Duck Nickelback Brandon Johnson Plays Like His Mom, But That's a Good Thing
As an athlete, Brandon Johnson takes after his mother. His father Wayne played four years of varsity football at Lenoir-Rhyne ...
ABC 7 Chicago5d
Mayor Johnson condemns ShotSpotter as 'a walkie-talkie on a pole' days before system shuts down
CHICAGO -- The gunshot detection system some City Council members are trying desperately to keep is little more than "a walkie-talkie on a pole," Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday. Johnson ...
Chicago Sun-Times4d
The case for keeping ShotSpotter
Larry Snelling — instead of Mayor Brandon Johnson — the authority to make a new deal to keep ShotSpotter online, as the Sun-Times’ Fran Spielman and Tom Schuba reported. The system is in ...
Crain's Chicago Business4d
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 ...
Chicago Tribune6d
Civic Committee leaders: Mayor Johnson, don’t cancel ShotSpotter unless you can transition to something better
Seven months ago, we publicly raised concerns about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to end the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system and strongly urged him to keep the system in place unless the ...
Chicago magazine2d
City Council Is Seeing Red With Johnson’s Ranks
Mayor Brandon Johnson just appointed one of his left-wing buddies to serve as his liaison to the city council, putting her in charge of selling his budget to the alders at a time when the city has ...
Crain's Chicago Business5d
Johnson faces fresh opposition on ShotSpotter as City Council gears up for more fights
Attempting to tie the hands of Mayor Brandon Johnson, supporters in the City Council of the city’s controversial gunshot detection contract with ShotSpotter are plotting a last-ditch effort to ...
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Brandon Johnson: Cut by Denver
The Broncos waived Johnson on Tuesday, Chris Tomasson of The Denver Gazette reports. Johnson was a favorite of coach Sean Payton last season, seeing action in 13 games while making a pair of ...