The mayor's team has discussed options with the City Council to cut the property tax to $150 million and hope to avoid a vote this week on the tax while negotiations are ongoing.

The city of Chicago is facing a nearly one billion budget deficit for the year 2025. Due to this financial crisis, mayor Brandon Johnson says a property tax increase was unavoidable. The proposed $346 ...

The Chicago City Council is holding a special meeting next week, and might vote on Mayor Johnson's proposed property tax hike.

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In a move to pre-empt what many see as an unsavory tax burden for Chicagoans, 29 members of the Chicago ... shadow. Johnson's ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson late last month proposed a $300 million property tax hike in an effort to close a nearly $1B budget gap ...

The increase would be Chicago's largest in a decade, but alderpersons hope to force the mayor back to the bargaining table to ...

An estimated 37 of 50 aldermen wouldn’t vote for a 4 percent increase to help cover the city’s $982 million budget shortfall.

For the first time in Chicago’s history, voters on Tuesday chose 10 people to be on the city’s partially elected, 21-member ...

Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with a $300 million property tax increase, aldermen pelted the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats who served as surrogates for Kamala Harris, waited until she gave her concession speech before issuing their own statements. Pritzker ...

Crain’s political columnist Greg Hinz joins host Amy Guth to analyze election results and what they likely mean for Chicago ...