Mayor Brandon Johnson tells CPS CEO Pedro Martinez he wants him out, sources say
After months of tension, Mayor Brandon Johnson told Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez this week that he wants the ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson asks CPS chief Pedro Martinez to resign, sources say
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez to step down this week, ...
Ald. Silvana Tabares: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership needs a lesson in math
It’s an age-old maxim to say politics is a game of addition, not subtraction. Coalition building is about bringing people ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson asks Chicago Public Schools chief Pedro Martinez to resign, sources say
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez to step down this week, several sources close to the matter confirmed with the Tribune Friday.
Chicago Sun-Times5d
Raise haze — facing a $1 billion budget gap, Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t said if he’ll take a pay hike next year
Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions after ... And it comes as the Johnson administration has enacted a hiring freeze to stem a $223 million end-of-year deficit and nearly $1 billion dollar ...
Crain's Chicago Business4d
Johnson faces fresh opposition on ShotSpotter as City Council gears up for more fights
Attempting to tie the hands of Mayor Brandon ... Administration to enter into a renewed contract with ShotSpotter’s parent company, SoundThinking, it's unclear the administration will act when ...
ABC 7 Chicago4d
Mayor Johnson condemns ShotSpotter as 'a walkie-talkie on a pole' days before system shuts down
CHICAGO -- The gunshot detection system some City Council members are trying desperately to keep is little more than "a walkie-talkie on a pole," Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday. Johnson ...
Athlon Sports2d
Duck Nickelback Brandon Johnson Plays Like His Mom, But That's a Good Thing
As an athlete, Brandon Johnson takes after his mother. His father Wayne played four years of varsity football at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, but his mother Alanda played ...
Crain's Chicago Business3d
Showdown over ShotSpotter looms as City Council approves new measure to keep it running
The City Council approved a last-ditch effort today over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objection ... technology have said they would take the Johnson administration to court in what would be a ...
Chicago magazine2d
City Council Is Seeing Red With Johnson’s Ranks
Mayor Brandon Johnson just appointed one of ... Before she joined the Johnson administration last spring, Kennedy Bartley was executive director of United Working Families, the political arm ...
WBEZ5d
Facing a $1 billion budget gap, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t said if he’ll take a pay raise next year
Chicago elected officials are slated to receive a 4.1% raise next year, though Mayor Brandon Johnson has ... were taking the raise. But Johnson’s administration declined to volunteer the ...
ABC 7 Chicago2d
Chicago City Council votes to keep ShotSpotter; mayor says he will veto ordinance
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed to veto an ordinance ... would give the head of the city's Office of Public Safety Administration the right to extend the existing ShotSpotter ...