Chicago’s tourism bureau and downtown hotel owners are backing an unusual play to boost demand: taxing themselves. A resolution to begin creating a Tourism Improvement District, funded by a 1.5 ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs an executive order capping police overtime spending and adding oversight to manage the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Tuesday prohibiting the sale of medical debt and establishing responsible ...

Chicago's city council passed its alternative budget over the weekend. Mayor Brandon Johnson hates it, but said he would not veto it.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday he will not veto the 2026 budget passed by aldermen, conceding a historic struggle that reached the brink of a government shutdown.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday morning he will move forward with the alternate budget passed by Chicago City ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he does not plan to sign the “alternative” city budget for 2026 that was passed over ...

Chicago has avoided a city government shutdown in 2026. After the City Council gave its final approval to a spending plan ...

The city budget, which will take effect Jan. 1, will double CPD’s overtime budget from $100 million to $200 million, the first increase since 2020, when the budget for police overtime went from $95 ...

CHICAGO - Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he would not veto, nor sign the so-called alternative budget passed by a ...

The City Council drops the mayor’s top budget priority.

The city’s 2026 budget includes a $1 billion surplus of money from special tax increment financing districts, known as TIF.