Mayor Brandon Johnson floating change to head tax proposal: sources
Mayor Brandon Johnson has begun asking aldermen if they would support a corporate head tax if it applied only to companies with 200 or more workers, sources say.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson noncommittal on next Chicago Public Schools CEO
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday indicated further applicants should throw their hats in the ring to be Chicago Public Schools CEO.
High stakes for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive agenda in head tax push
Having already failed to deliver other key tenets of his ambitious tax-the-rich wish list, the head tax is a watershed moment for Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies.
14 mothers arrested during protest at ICE processing center in Broadview; clergy again denied access to detainees
It's the latest act of civil disobedience outside the facility that’s become a major flash point of opposition to the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson blames past administrations after rating agency’s negative budget outlook
Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his 2026 budget proposal Thursday following a rating agency lowering its outlook on the city this week, which signaled a potential future credit downgrade to one...
Chicago aviation official allegedly pocketed over $250,000 from sham O’Hare snow removal deal: feds
Eric Sanders is accused of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a snow removal company with the help of his father, his girlfriend and her son.
Transit reform measure shifts CTA control from Chicago mayor. Lawmaker says that’s an ‘asset.’
As state lawmakers raced to pass a $1.5 billion plan to overhaul regional mass transportation, Mayor Brandon Johnson's office lost control over the CTA board.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget pitch blames ‘Trump Deficit,’ but Chicago’s money woes found elsewhere
Mayor Brandon Johnson's rhetoric around his first Trump-era budget does not, in fact, match the reality of what’s driving the city’s fiscal woes.
On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.
Lakeview resident calls on CPD to investigate federal agents for immigration raid on his property
Leo Feler said federal agents violated the Fourth Amendment by bursting into his property last week while trying to arrest construction workers.