Chicago Tribune4d
Ald. Silvana Tabares: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership needs a lesson in math
I haven’t seen Mayor Brandon Johnson’s elementary school report cards, but I can tell you this former teacher-turned-mayor gets an F in governing, both in style and substance or lack thereof.
ABC 7 Chicago5d
Mayor Johnson condemns ShotSpotter as 'a walkie-talkie on a pole' days before system shuts down
CHICAGO -- The gunshot detection system some City Council members are trying desperately to keep is little more than "a walkie-talkie on a pole," Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday. Johnson ...
Crain's Chicago Business5d
Johnson faces fresh opposition on ShotSpotter as City Council gears up for more fights
Attempting to tie the hands of Mayor Brandon Johnson, supporters in the City Council of the city’s controversial gunshot detection contract with ShotSpotter are plotting a last-ditch effort to ...
Chicago Sun-Times5d
Raise haze — facing a $1 billion budget gap, Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t said if he’ll take a pay hike next year
Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions after a press conference to celebrate the Chicago Classic at Soldier Field Monday. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Elected city officials are slated to ...
Athlon Sports3d
Duck Nickelback Brandon Johnson Plays Like His Mom, But That's a Good Thing
As an athlete, Brandon Johnson takes after his mother. His father Wayne played four years of varsity football at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, but his mother Alanda played ...
Crain's Chicago Business4d
Showdown over ShotSpotter looms as City Council approves new measure to keep it running
The City Council approved a last-ditch effort today over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objection to try to keep the city’s gunshot detection system, ShotSpotter, up and running just days before it ...
Chicago Sun-Times4d
City Council gives top cop power to keep ShotSpotter, but Johnson vows veto
A ShotSpotter gunshot detector on a traffic signal post at 56th Street and Western Avenue Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share A defiant City Council on Wednesday tried to force Mayor Brandon Johnson ...
WBEZ5d
Facing a $1 billion budget gap, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t said if he’ll take a pay raise next year
Chicago elected officials are slated to receive a 4.1% raise next year, though Mayor Brandon Johnson has so far declined to say whether he plans to take the pay bump as the city stares down a ...
ABC 7 Chicago2d
Some aldermen warn ShotSpotter veto could blow up budget negotiations between mayor, city council
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed to veto an ordinance that would keep ShotSpotter gun detection technology in place, but supporters in council are not ready to give up the fight ...
Chicago Tribune3d
Editorial: With ShotSpotter’s looming demise, Brandon Johnson turns his back on neighborhoods whose votes made him mayor
Richard M. Daley’s disastrous parking-meter deal leaps to mind. But Mayor Brandon Johnson’s continued insistence on ending Chicago’s use of the ShotSpotter gun-detection technology is one ...
Chicago magazine3d
City Council Is Seeing Red With Johnson’s Ranks
Mayor Brandon Johnson just appointed one of his left-wing buddies to serve as his liaison to the city council, putting her in charge of selling his budget to the alders at a time when the city has ...
WBEZ3d
City Council gives top cop power to keep ShotSpotter, but Johnson vows veto
A defiant City Council on Wednesday tried to force Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system — and an equally defiant mayor declared the ordinance “illegal ...