Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is doubling down on calls for the state of Illinois to fund Chicago Public Schools.

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

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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.

Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson won the Chicago mayoral election on a bold progressive platform, defeating moderate Democrat Paul Vallas.

Brandon Johnson: From church youth group leader to teacher on a path ‘to do better for others’ The middle child in a family of 10 children, Johnson grew up in a three-bedroom Elgin home with ...

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.

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 ...

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

Brandon Johnson, a progressive former union organizer and teacher, is set to become Chicago's 57th mayor Monday after winning a tight runoff in April.

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.

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 ...