Even as Mayor Brandon Johnson has warned of possible mid-year city worker layoffs if revenue estimates in the budget fall ...

Deputy Planning and Development Commissioner Jeff Cohen said the HUD loan is needed to salvage the “gut rehab” because ...

The silver lining in the budget wars of the Johnson term is the emergence of legitimate political talent on the City Council.

Bally’s Chicago may delay the opening of their permanent casino location in River West for as much as another year into the ...

The proposed settlement is tied to a lawsuit that contends Chicago cops “responded to these protests with brutal, violent, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday morning said he would move forward with the alternate budget passed by Chicago City Council on Saturday. Johnson said he would not sign the ...

Money was put into retention bonuses and time-and-a-half plus $40 for staff that worked during Christmas Eve or Christmas. A ...

Jill Jaworski, the city’s finance chief since May 2023, is taking a similar job at Chicago’s Navy Pier tourist attraction ...

The alternative budget proposal championed by a group of Chicago aldermen won a crucial first full City Council vote on Friday, even as Mayor Brandon Johnson made a last-ditch effort to reintroduce ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The Chicago City Council passed a 2026 city budget during a rare and tension-filled Saturday session, a budget that does not include Mayor Brandon Johnson’s controversial corporate ...

School board elections, budget deficits, and the search to find a new Chicago Public Schools CEO are among the things we’re ...

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