Chicago’s top budget officials call mayor’s plan to balance budget with property tax increase ‘prudent’
A day after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled a plan to balance the city budget with the largest property tax increase in a decade, his top three budget officials are arguing that the unpopular decision could be prudent.
Chicago mayor's police budget plan cuts constitutional policing, other reform offices: ‘It’s a gutting’
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget plan for Chicago police slashes several offices that are critical to the ongoing federal consent decree, sparking alarm from policing experts who say now is not the time to take the foot off the gas with reform.
Chicago Police Department reform office slashed under Johnson's proposed budget
Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his 2024 budget address to the Chicago City Council on Wednesday. He’d rather fill all the targeted vacancies, he said, but the financial reality required all city departments — including CPD — to cut spending by 3%.
Daywatch: Johnson’s CPD budget plan cuts constitutional policing
Good morning, Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget plan for Chicago police slashes several offices that are critical to the ongoing federal consent decree, sparking alarm from policing experts who say now is not the time to take the foot off the gas with reform.
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Activists call for more funding for migrant and homelessness services in Chicago’s 2025 budget
Immigrant rights activists warned of a looming homeless crisis next year and urged Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council ...
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The next budget riddle Johnson must solve: Crain's Daily Gist podcast
With the mayor's $17.3 billion budget unveiled, Crain’s politics reporter Justin Laurence and host Amy Guth break down its ...
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4 ways Chicago’s 2025 budget fails, plus hikes property taxes
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget proposes a nearly $1 billion deficit. High personnel and pension costs have ...
Chicago mayor to propose property tax hike to close $1 billion budget gap
The proposal for a property tax increase would be a reversal of a campaign promise Mayor Brandon Johnson made.
Johnson's CPD budget could threaten progress on reforms required under court-ordered consent decree
The mayor broke a campaign promise not raise property taxes, but he claimed it was the only way to avoid cutting 4,000 jobs ...
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Chicago budget has jumped $6B since before COVID, faces $1B deficit in 2025
The Chicago budget has grown by over $6 billion since 2019. Despite being bolstered by billions in federal relief, the city ...
$300M property tax hike in Chicago mayor’s 2025 budget proposal, but no layoffs
Despite continued promises not to raise property taxes stemming back to his mayoral campaign, Mayor Brandon Johnson has ...
WATCH LIVE: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to deliver 2025 budget address
The address is expected to include a proposal for a property tax hike -- a plan that Johnson steadfastly promised against ...
Editorial: Brandon Johnson has a choice in his upcoming budget: Stick it to taxpayers or to city workers.
Johnson’s three primary means of balancing the 2025 budget are employee reductions (eliminating unfilled positions and ...
‘Non-starter:’ The 7 demands Chicago alders have for mayor’s 2025 budget
Mayor Brandon Johnson needs the approval of 26 of the city's alders to pass his proposed budget. But if a group of them who ...