Mayor Johnson’s record-setting $1 billion TIF surplus highlights issues and abuse of Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing ...

Paul Vallas is an adviser for the Illinois Policy Institute. He ran against Brandon Johnson for Chicago mayor in 2023 and was ...

Explore the Chicago police budget and learn how the department consistently overspends its budget from 2022 to 2024.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign last quarter returned $120,000 from two political action committees both led by developers ...

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The city’s police and fire pension funds will be “technically insolvent.” ...

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A major challenge for the city’s budget this year revolves around a bill, HB 3657, that Pritzker signed into law earlier this ...

The woman, dubbed by Chicago as its "worst landowner," is now selling her properties to make good on her debts. However, ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson describes the 2026 budget as “Protecting Chicago,” but his plan seems to do the opposite. Taxes ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. Activists, ...

We speak to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson as President Trump singles out the city as a training ground for the military and National Guard deployment. Militarized federal agents from the FBI and ...