CHICAGO - To Chicagoans’ relief, the $300 million property tax hike is as good as dead on arrival, as the Chicago City ...

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 ...

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

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

The increase would be Chicago's largest in a decade, but alderpersons hope to force the mayor back to the bargaining table to ...

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

The Chicago City Council is holding a special meeting next week, and might vote on Mayor Johnson's proposed property tax hike.

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

Chicago City Council calls special meeting Members of the Chicago City Council have called for a special meeting next week to ...

The city’s first elections to the school board were disappointing for candidates backed by the Chicago Teachers Union, but ...

Two additional Board of Election races were called Friday morning, rounding out the unofficial results of the city’s historic ...

Illinoisans are well aware that enjoying a cocktail in Chicago is usually a pricey venture, but if the mayor has his way, it ...