The Chicago City Council delivered a strong rebuke of Mayor Brandon Johnson's fiscal 2025 budget on Thursday, rejecting a $300 million property tax increase.

Attorneys from Atlanta-based law firm hired by the City-County Council explained that supervisors and managers are held to a higher standard when it comes to reporting and modeling appropriate ...

The overwhelming vote was largely symbolic. Negotiations to reduce or eliminate the property tax hike and replace it with a ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson argued the tax hike was necessary to avoid mass layoffs, including of police officers. Now, Johnson and City Council will have to figure out how to bring in other revenue to ...

Rescue teams were searching Friday through rubble for missing people near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon where an ...

Time to start over on Chicago’s budget after the remarkable 50-0 City Council vote to kill Brandon Johnson’s $300 million ...

The Chicago City Council unanimously voted down Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed property tax hike in a special meeting ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's short-term six-member school board is holding a special meeting that sources say is likely to lay the groundwork to fire Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez.

The Chicago Board of Education (CBOE) voted unanimously Thursday evening to support a new resolution that would explore ...

Three members of Mayor Johnson’s City Council leadership team had demanded that Kennedy Bartley, chief external affairs ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson has said he's willing to negotiate with the City Council on his proposed budget, but wouldn't commit to ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed the media Thursday afternoon shortly after the city council unanimously struck down his proposed property tax increase.