A City Council rebellion not seen in decades ultimately forced Mayor Brandon Johnson to honor his campaign promise to hold ...

Chicago must begin the process of true zero-based budgeting requiring that all city activities and programs be closely ...

This is in contrast to Chicago, where the City Council simply votes on a budget proposed by the mayor ... freeing up that money for 2025. Instead, the city will "amortize" that debt, costing ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget passed the City Council on Monday, but only by an extremely narrow margin. The final vote came in at 27-23 in favor of the proposal, capping off ...

The Chicago City Council approved an approximately $17 billion budget for 2025 that raises levies and fees by about $256 ...

The Chicago City Council took a key first step toward approving a 2025 budget on Tuesday, with multiple committees passing the proposal by narrow margins. The Finance Committee was first to act on ...

The $17.1 billion spending plan, which was the fourth version introduced to address the city’s $982 million budget deficit, ...

This is in contrast to Chicago, where the City Council simply votes on a budget proposed by the mayor ... freeing up that money for 2025. Instead, the city will "amortize" that debt, costing ...

CHICAGO — The City Council is one step closer to approving a 2025 budget, but Mayor Brandon Johnson’s revised spending plan — which still includes an unpopular property tax increase — is ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, shown at a City Council meeting, has called off a Council vote on his 2025 city budget, which had been set for Friday. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file photo Share After a ...

The Chicago City Council on Monday narrowly approved Mayor Brandon Johnson's fourth budget proposal—after yet another contentious hearing that involved lengthy speeches by alderpeople and ...

The city of Chicago ended the year with the extraordinarily messy passage of a $17.1 billion budget, featuring repeated City Council rejections of proposed mayoral property-tax hikes.