Chicago ended 2024 with a $161 million deficit. And a state bill boosting benefits for police and fire pensioners through ...

Ald. Scott Waguespack, speaks as the Chicago City Council meets for a procedural vote on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget, at City Hall, on Dec. 11, 2024. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first city budget offers down payment on campaign promises Spending on mental health, youth jobs falls short of Johnson’s goal, but $16.6 billion budget isn’t ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson's revised 2025 budget plan narrowly cleared its first hurdle Tuesday morning, as two key committees backed the mayor's $17.3 billion spending plan, and a $234 ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget at a glance. $300 million: The size of the property tax increase the mayor is proposing.; $570 million: TIF surplus funds being tapped to help balance the 2025 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing a $300 million property tax hike in 2025, going back on a key campaign promise, as he seeks to close a massive budget shortfall of nearly $1 billion.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has shifted course on how to close a $1 billion budget gap, trying to strike a conciliatory tone while also blasting critics amid the tough fight.

On Wednesday, actual projected budget figures as to the fiscal health of Chicago arrived, pricking some of the lofty rhetorical air out of the administration of Mayor Brandon Johnson. The headline ...

“All options are on the table” for Mayor Brandon Johnson as his administration prepares for a significantly larger budget gap in 2025 than the $538 million shortfall he closed after taking ...

As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his 2024 budget address during a City Council meeting Wednesday, he is expected to propose something he promised wouldn't while on the campaign trail: a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson's revised 2025 budget plan narrowly cleared its first hurdle Tuesday morning, as two key committees backed the mayor's $17.3 billion spending plan, and a $234 ...