Fran Spielman

One concession Mayor Brandon Johnson has offered is to impose a corporate head tax only on businesses with 200 or more employees, instead of on companies with 100 employees.

A resolution championed by Ald. Silvana Tabares calls for the city and county to unite in eliminating red tape in helping domestic violence victims.

In a virtual appearance with a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Brandon Johnson invited its experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand the “abuses” by ICE during raids he says have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the city and suburbs.

The 36th Ward alderperson wants cash-strapped Chicago to follow the trail blazed by Colorado and Minnesota, which have imposed similar delivery taxes.

Police Supt. Larry Snelling had previously vowed to resist any attempt to eliminate 984 police vacancies — even after Mayor Brandon Johnson ordered all department heads to cut 3% to 5% from their 2025 budgets. Instead, Snelling said he would meet the mandate by holding open those 984 police…

The room was built only after city Inspector General Deborah Witzburg was denied an unannounced inspection, underlining the Johnson administration’s lack of transparency, she says.

Twelve years after a previous inspector general's report, the department still hasn't “established and documented response time goals” nor worked with the Office of Emergency Management and Communications to “assess the root cause of data gaps," its new report says.

Finance Committee Chair Pat Dowell (3rd), Rules Chair Michelle Harris (8th), Transportation Chair Greg Mitchell (7th) and Black Caucus Chair Stephanie Coleman (16th) are among those who signed the letter in an apparent attempt to kill one the most controversial elements of Johnson’s $600 million…

“It’s all on quicksand — the very quicksand that has us really up against it financially … when there is no help coming from Springfield. There is no help coming from Washington, obviously,” Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson told the Sun-Times. “There is seemingly no recognition that we’ve…

The concerns raised by Aviation Commissioner Michael McMurray sent conflicting signals about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s commitment to forge ahead with an idea with potential to raise tens of millions of dollars for cash-strapped Chicago.