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 ...
Proposed Elgin 2025 budget includes money for a new ambulance, firefighters and capital improvement projects
Elgin Fire Department’s request to buy a sixth ambulance and hire nine additional firefighters to staff it is one of several ...
Portage teachers to get $1,750 raises under proposed budget; board voting Monday
The Portage Township School Board is set to vote Monday on $1,750 raises for teachers. The new salary range, retroactive to ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
Mayor's budget team explains why Chicago property tax hike was unavoidable
ABC7 sat down with Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget team to examine their 2025 proposal and hear why a property tax hike was ...
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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 ...