Paul Vallas is an adviser for the Illinois Policy Institute. He ran against Brandon Johnson for Chicago mayor in 2023 and was ...
Explore the Chicago police budget and learn how the department consistently overspends its budget from 2022 to 2024.
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The largest payout before the City Council’s Finance Committee, $8 million, would go to the family of a man who stopped ...
Sixty-nine City of Harvey employees have been furloughed due to what officials describe as a "severe financial emergency." ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion 2026 budget proposal won early praise from progressives and disdain from ...
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against the Trump administration objecting to the deployment of federal troops, and included an admonition that ...
Gov. JB Pritzker came out in opposition Tuesday to the reinstated $21-per-employee “head tax” on larger businesses that Mayor ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke with CBS News Chicago Monday morning to defend his 2026 budget proposal, which aims to close a ...
Trimming city spending faces at least as many logistical and political hurdles as any push to hike taxes, the Illinois ...
Mayor Johnson’s record-setting $1 billion TIF surplus highlights issues and abuse of Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing ...
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