As public servants, every City Council member must show up to Wednesday's special meeting on Mayor Johnson's 2025 budget and record-breaking property tax increase. Absence sends the message "I don't ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson late last month proposed a $300 million property tax hike in an effort to close a nearly $1B budget gap ...

The 29 council members who asked for the meeting are critical of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to close a gaping budget hole ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing criticism on Wednesday after he released a statement offering "heartfelt thoughts and prayers" to the victim of a shooting in the city’s Rogers Park ...

ABC7 sat down with Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget team to examine their 2025 proposal and hear why a property tax hike was ...

Commentary: Mayor Johnson should know better than to “jeopardize the financial health of the school system” in advancing one ...

For the first time in Chicago’s history, voters on Tuesday chose 10 people to be on the city’s partially elected, 21-member ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed in a statement ... "There will be justice for our city. And there will be justice for the Chicago Police Department. The whole city and I stand with the ...

CHICAGO — A day after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled a plan to balance the city budget with the largest property tax increase in a decade, his top three budget officials are arguing that ...

Many would require buy-in from the state — an unlikely prospect given the fragile state of City Hall-Springfield relations. The mayor did lament the loss of his Bring Chicago Home tax referendum ...

The recently appointed head of Chicago’s school board resigned Thursday after reports from the Jewish Insider and Chicago Sun ...

The city hired or promoted 490 employees in the six weeks since Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a hiring freeze, with the Chicago Police Department seeing the most new hires. The employment data ...