Mayor Brandon Johnson is all but giving up on his proposed $300 million ... behavioral and mental health, affordable housing and “paying into peoples’ retirement.” The City Council’s Black Caucus is opposed to raising Chicago’s garbage collection ...

The mayor is open to a “plethora of ideas” so long as they don’t compromise his core values of “investing in people” through summer jobs, community safety, behavioral health and affordable housing but also avoiding layoffs and furlough days and continuing to make additional payments on

WBBM’s Political Editor Craig Dellimore sat down with the mayor Thursday morning at City Hall to discuss the budget. The full conversation will be aired in this week’s At Issue segment at 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is reportedly planning to propose a property tax hike as part of tomorrow's budget address after previously campaigning against it.

Dozens of aldermen called for a special meeting to vote down the mayor's proposed $300 million property tax increase.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is all but giving up on his proposed $300 million property tax hike before aldermen kill it, and pushing them to find other revenue in its place to avert layoffs. Johnson’s administration is combing over alternatives to the tax jump ahead of a meeting Wednesday where the City Council is expected to vote it down.

Twenty-two of the City Council’s 50 members met Saturday with top mayoral aides, including Johnson’s budget team, to begin negotiations that, some alderpersons said, should have started long before Johnson belatedly introduced his $17.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is vowing to work with City Council members who are dead set on lowering or eliminating the property tax increase he has proposed.