Mayor Johnson’s record-setting $1 billion TIF surplus highlights issues and abuse of Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing ...

A prolonged shutdown lasting several months or longer may force furloughed employees to exhaust savings, while sapping wider ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign last quarter returned $120,000 from two political action committees both led by developers with active city contracts, the latest instances of his political fund ...

Gov. JB Pritzker came out in opposition Tuesday to the reinstated $21-per-employee “head tax” on larger businesses that Mayor ...

Paul Vallas is an adviser for the Illinois Policy Institute. He ran against Brandon Johnson for Chicago mayor in 2023 and was ...

Budget negotiations between members of the Chicago City Council have accelerated following Mayor Brandon Johnson’s initial proposal, which he unveiled last week.

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 ...

Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th), who marshaled opposition to Johnson’s 2025 budget, warned the mayor to prepare for another budget ...

According to a BGA Policy analysis, departmental budgets for three of Chicago's oversight agencies fall short of minimums ...

National Guard troops began patrolling in Memphis, as the Trump administration battles lawsuits against similar moves in ...

FIRST ON FOX: The University of Chicago exclusively told Fox News Digital that it condemns violence after a professor at the school was charged with violent felonies during an anti-ICE riot in the ...