Chicago ended 2024 with a $161 million deficit. And a state bill boosting benefits for police and fire pensioners through ...

Brandon Johnson speaks after being projected winner of the mayoral election on April 4, 2023, in Chicago. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images) A lifelong progressive, Johnson was born in Elgin, Illinois ...

Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson in a current photo and as a child. His faith led him to his wife, to travel, and permeates his message as he vies to become the next Chicago mayor.

The middle child in a family of 10 children, Johnson grew up in a three-bedroom Elgin home with parents who were pastors and also foster parents. After his mother died, Johnson helped to carry the ...

Born in Elgin, Johnson also served as an organizer with the Chicago Teachers Union and helped organize the union’s strike in 2012, according to his campaign biography.

He’s the son of a pastor, a middle child of 10 brothers and sisters raised in a warm and boisterous home in Elgin that was known to host the occasional Bible study, foster child or victim of ...

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How Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas grew into rivals for mayor of Chicago ... The other was raised in far west suburban Elgin before moving to Chicago’s West Side after he married.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continued to buck Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a pledge not to cooperate with them on ...

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 ...

Brandon Johnson has gone from the congregation to the classroom to the picket line to the boardroom—and now to City Hall’s fifth floor.

Brandon Johnson — a first-term Cook County board member, former teacher and union official — will be Chicago’s next mayor after a stunning victory in Tuesday’s runoff election against ...