The Chicago City Council was set to meet Tuesday morning, and Mayor Brandon Johnson was set to hold a town hall on the ...

C HICAGO ( WGN) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and City Council members addressed the city’s budget and deficit during a ...

CHICAGO - Members of the Chicago City Council held an emergency meeting on Monday in which they grilled members of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget team about a report outlining ways to close a more ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's $16.6 billion spending plan for 2026 was dealt a major blow on Monday, as a key City Council ...

Finance Chair Pat Dowell, a member of Brandon Johnson’s handpicked leadership team, joined Gov. JB Pritzker, business leaders ...

Unpaid tabs to the city now surpass $8 billion dating to the early 1990s, with Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration looking ...

With only several weeks of the year left, Chicago’s city council is figuring out the city’s 2026 budget. School board members ...

Ald. Pat Dowell told reporters she advised Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration not to proceed with a budget vote in her ...

After Johnson’s budget proposal failed to make it through the City Council’s Finance Committee, the mayor and alders ...

Taxpayers in Chicago forked over $3.2 million to a giant consulting firm to learn how the city could save money as it seeks to close a $1.15 billion budget shortfall for next year. Now several ...

The refusal of the City Council’s Finance Committee to advance Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed spending plan is another sign there is no clear consensus on the bulk of Johnson’s proposal to impose ...

The labor fight has implications for the whole city, with billions of dollars in property taxes and other money from ...