Spending time? Mayor Johnson’s budget address pushed back two weeks in face of nearly $1 billion deficit
Johnson’s budget director tells WBEZ all options are on the table to close the budget gap as the mayor shores up a plan. The ...
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Facing a $1 billion deficit, Mayor Brandon Johnson is delaying his budget address by two weeks
Johnson’s budget director tells WBEZ all options are on the table to close the budget gap as the mayor shores up a plan.
Inside Mayor Brandon Johnson’s stunning fight for control of Chicago schools as CTU contract talks stall
The long-simmering standoff between City Hall and Chicago Public Schools leadership that just blew up in the public eye ...
Mass school closures revealed as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson works with CTU to suppress opposition
CEO Pedro Martinez has refused to resign and his resignation has now become a flashpoint as divisions emerge in the ruling ...
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Brandon Johnson takes, gives back campaign cash from janitorial businesses that share in fat CPS contracts
While the mayor's campaign refunded several contributions from custodial companies and industry executives, it defended ...
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 ...
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In push to oust CPS chief Martinez, Johnson tests the limits of his power again
The mayor has sided with the teachers union in a fight over the school chief's future — but will Board of Education members ...
Editorial: CPS crisis is mobilizing establishment Chicago against Brandon Johnson’s agenda
For months, prominent Chicagoans in for-profit commerce and nonprofit governance, Democrats all, have fretted and shaken ...
Will Johnson: Most Chicagoans reject higher city taxes, no matter the purpose. That’s bad news for the mayor.
When a new poll asked Chicagoans what deserves local tax funding, only one, basic services such as garbage pickup, was cited ...
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As Johnson scrambles to close $1 billion budget gap, vote could get delayed to December
The delay would give the mayor's budget team more time to find politically feasible personnel cuts and revenue boosters to ...