Chicago is what happens when antisemitism mixes with lawlessness
Days after the Oct. 26 shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was publicly rebuked for issuing ...
Chicago Sun-Times24d
Johnson must break two campaign promises to get budget passed, City Council critic warns
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Mayor Brandon Johnson must break two campaign promises — by renewing a ShotSpotter contract he canceled and raising property taxes he said he would freeze ...
Mayor Johnson to announce property tax hike as part of 2025 budget despite campaign promises
As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his 2024 budget address during a City Council meeting Wednesday, he is expected to ...
Longview News-Journal20d
Chicago alderman argues ‘ShotSpotter ‘fulfills what it’s meant to do’
Last month, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pulled the plug on the service ... “No one ever claimed ShotSpotter will catch 100% of the shots fired, cars break down, computers break down, watches ...
Crain's Chicago Business11d
Johnson's $17.3 billion budget faces pushback in City Council, with a close ally in the opposition
The hardball negotiations and posturing over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $17.3 billion 2025 budget began nearly as soon ...
National Review2d
Brandon Johnson Wasn’t on the Ballot in Chicago, but Went Down in Flames on Tuesday Anyway
Glenn Youngkin Tells Trump He Will Serve Out Rest of His Term, Won’t Serve in Admin Massie Should Go Full Milei on the USDA Readers of National Review have become ...
Politico26d
Johnson pushes back against critics
PLAYBOOK Q&A: Mayor Brandon Johnson aggressively defended his tenure ... Chicago School Board decision-making and the future of ShotSpotter. “There are people who might have some trepidation ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson won’t say if he will return $150,000 from rapper Lil Durk, arrested for alleged murder-for-hire plot
Johnson suggested he had no immediate intention to give back the money when asked how he would handle the sizable ...
Politico29d
School board fracas highlights Chicago mayor’s turbulent tenure
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was catapulted into office ... Black communities have debated whether the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system approved during Emanuel’s administration ...
Micky Horstman: Young Chicagoans can’t afford city government’s spending addiction
Mr. Mayor, you’re cut off. Young Chicagoans can’t afford your lifestyle. We young professionals know we can’t get bottle ...
Crain's Chicago Business27d
Opinion: The mayor says he 'has the power' — but does he have the power to listen?
Despite Mayor Brandon Johnson claiming he has led “a collaborative ... restoring lifesaving ShotSpotter technology, and taking a more democratic and transparent approach to the fourth-largest ...
Chicago Sun-Times25d
Civic Federation serves up smorgasbord of options on revenue, cost-cutting to avoid property tax hike
Mayor Brandon Johnson with Ald. Jason Ervin at a City Council meeting in November 2023. Ferguson first suggested the city start charging for garbage collection in 2011. Five years later ...