Aldermen rip Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 property tax hike proposal as budget hearings kick off
Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with a $300 million property tax increase, aldermen pelted the ...
Chicago just spent more than $80K to renovate, furnish the office of First Lady Stacie Johnson — all while the city is grappling with a nearly billion-dollar budget shortfall
The city of Chicago is facing a massive budget shortfall of nearly one billion dollars for 2025. In an effort to limit the shortfall, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters "everything is on the ...
Chicago’s top budget officials call mayor’s plan to balance budget with property tax increase ‘prudent’
A day after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled a plan to balance the city budget with the largest property tax increase ...
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Activists call for more funding for migrant and homelessness services in Chicago’s 2025 budget
Immigrant rights activists warned of a looming homeless crisis next year and urged Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council ...
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Chicago Is Running Out of Money. Its Teachers Union Wants 9% Raises Anyway
Aldeman: The district has hired 2,000 teachers since 2018 and is paying them 16% more even as enrollment dropped by 38,000 ...
WATCH LIVE: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to deliver 2025 budget address
The address is expected to include a proposal for a property tax hike -- a plan that Johnson steadfastly promised against ...
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4 ways Chicago’s 2025 budget fails, plus hikes property taxes
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget proposes a nearly $1 billion deficit. High personnel and pension costs have ...
Chicago mayor to propose property tax hike to close $1 billion budget gap
The proposal for a property tax increase would be a reversal of a campaign promise Mayor Brandon Johnson made.
Hotel tax could increase to boost tourism budget
The room tax could increase another 1.5 percentage points at downtown hotels that opt in to a proposed plan to increase the ...
$300M property tax hike in Chicago mayor’s 2025 budget proposal, but no layoffs
Despite continued promises not to raise property taxes stemming back to his mayoral campaign, Mayor Brandon Johnson has ...
Crain's Chicago Business1d
Choose Chicago eyes extra downtown hotel charge to boost budget
Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Choose Chicago is trying a new approach to solve its perennial ...
Naperville News Digest: Naperville woman to receive Outstanding Mother Award; Naperville Park District budget now available for review
A Naperville mother of four is one of four area women chosen to receive a 2024 Outstanding Mother Award from the American ...