The city of Chicago has a massive $1.1 billion budget gap to fill for 2026, and with Mayor Brandon Johnson promising not to ...

Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), the Budget Committee chair, agreed with Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd), Finance chair, that the Council needs ...

Facing a $1 billion deficit, Mayor Brandon Johnson has said he would consider a ‘head tax’ or a payroll expense tax, both of ...

The Chicago mayor announced a quest for new "progressive" revenue to address structural budget problems, mounting pension debt and funding shortages for transportation and education.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In his weekly news conference, Mayor Brandon Johnson says he is working with Chicago Public Schools and unions to come up with a variety of ways to balance the budget. The district ...

CHICAGO ( WGN) – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signaled that he is not planning on proposing a property tax increase in ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s finance team is briefing members of the City Council on potential new or expanded revenue streams.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office confirmed that he has asked the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate whether any officers helped with immigration raids. Some city leaders ...

The mayor's statement came in response to a question about a pension bill signed into law by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker last ...

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani hopes to emulate Boston's Michelle Wu rather than Chicago's struggling Brandon Johnson in his New York mayoral campaign.

Johnson said Tuesday his budget team is now proposing a $150 million property tax hike, and the mayor said some members of the City Council need to "grow up" as budget talks continue.

It wasn’t long ago that Brandon Johnson, 47, was a county commissioner and teachers’ union organizer, unknown to many Chicagoans. On Monday he was sworn in as the city’s 57th mayor.