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

Budget negotiations between members of the Chicago City Council have accelerated following Mayor Brandon Johnson’s initial proposal, which he unveiled last week.

Sixty-nine City of Harvey employees have been furloughed due to what officials describe as a "severe financial emergency." ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke with CBS News Chicago Monday morning to defend his 2026 budget proposal, which aims to close a ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion 2026 budget proposal won early praise from progressives and disdain from ...

Trimming city spending faces at least as many logistical and political hurdles as any push to hike taxes, the Illinois ...

The largest payout before the City Council’s Finance Committee, $8 million, would go to the family of a man who stopped ...

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

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D), responding to President Trump’s remarks that he and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) should be arrested, called Trump “unstable” and “unhinged.” “First of all, this ...