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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks during a news conference about President Donald Trump at City Hall after a City Council meeting on May 21, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) ...
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 campaign fund has returned most of a $50,000 contribution it accepted a year and a half ago from a political action committee led by a City Hall lobbyist whose law firm ...
As thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets during 2020’s nationwide racial reckoning on policing, one word captured the fury of that summer: “Defund.” Following the murder of … ...
Brandon Johnson wasn’t supposed to take campaign money from city contractors, but he did A campaign aide calls it an “oversight” and says $46,500 is being returned, agreeing that the ethics ...
On Friday, Johnson called off his effort to pass a budget plan that would have included the $68.5 million property tax hike before debate could begin, after failing to get enough support for the ...
Brandon Johnson was sworn in as mayor of the nation's third-largest city Monday at a ceremony attended by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin. Johnson, 47, a ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson highlights top Black officials in his administration. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's city is being investigated for alleged race-based hiring after comments he made ...
CHICAGO — In the final days of the mayoral campaign in Chicago, Brandon Johnson drew more than 4,000 people to a jubilant rally featuring Senator Bernie Sanders, who endorsed him.
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. Mr ...
Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson speaks during the reveal of the podium in advance of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., August 15, 2024.
Johnson, on the other hand, “seemed genuinely excited” to participate: “Brandon clearly cares for the people he wants to serve as mayor,” added Callan, who grew up in a conservative North ...