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Mayor Brandon Johnson won’t say if he will return $150,000 from rapper Lil Durk, arrested in alleged murder-for-hire plot
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on ... months after the alleged crime. Photos also show him sitting next to Foxx at a Chicago Sky basketball game this summer. Johnson alluded to that new image ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson unveils $17.3 billion city budget, proposes steep property tax increase
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Chicago property owners reeling from reassessments will be hit with a double whammy — a $300 million property tax increase — to help Mayor Brandon Johnson balance ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s property tax hike gets opposition, caution from aldermen
When lukewarm applause followed Mayor Brandon ... Johnson’s decision to continue making advance payments to Chicago’s struggling pension funds, a move that began under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Progressive Caucus co-chair accuses mayor of posturing in talks to cut failed property tax hike
I don’t understand this idea that the mayor has something that he’s brokered," said Ald. Andre Vasquez. "The first proposal ...
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Chicago: Mayor Brandon Johnson faces political headwinds from his progressive base
CHICAGO — When Mayor Brandon Johnson honored the Rev. Jesse Jackson ... an idea that started under Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and took another victory lap after a successful Democratic National ...
WBEZ29d
City will end shelters designated for newly arrived immigrants this year, Mayor Johnson says
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Monday at a news conference. The transition of the two shelter systems — one for newly arrived immigrants and another for unhoused people in Chicago — will ...
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Chicago Teachers Have an Ally As Mayor—Now They’re Fighting for a Historic Contract
(Photo by Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images) “That will help us come together ... Chicago Took a Major Step Toward Tackling the City's Housing Crisis In a victory for Mayor Brandon Johnson's ...
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Chicagoans React To Trump Victory: ‘The Democrats Have Some Soul-Searching To Do’
Block Club reporters went into the neighborhoods to talk to voters after the biggest GOP bump in Chicago since 1992.
The Star15d
Major industry powering Chicago at risk of leaving
Chicago: The letters are stamped all over ... Diversified economy Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office said that no decision has been made on a transactions tax and the administration is open to ...
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Activists, Media Push For Police Accountability At Missing Black Women Hearing
The hearing came months after Mayor Brandon Johnson ... together to be able to create solutions to improve police procedures and policies related to missing persons, and think about what future ...