One issue loomed in aldermen’s anxious speeches last week in the lead-up to a vote on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget for next year: 2026. Though the mayor ultimately eked out a 27-23 win on ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Mayor Brandon Johnson's revised 2025 budget plan narrowly cleared its first hurdle Tuesday morning, as two key committees backed the mayor's $17.3 billion spending plan ...

No name appeared more frequently in Tribune editorials in 2024 than that of Mayor Brandon Johnson. So much so, in fact, that we have given him an entire day as the editorial board reviews the past ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Seeking to get a budget deal done on Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson has dropped plans to seek a $68.5 million property tax hike, sources have told CBS News Chicago, though it ...

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson is one of them. On the morning after the election, after he had campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina, Johnson released an official statement ...

Aldermen blasted Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handling of staff abuse allegations Tuesday and demanded he change the rules governing the city’s “do not hire” list. Johnson claimed Monday he had ...

In a set of appointments that round out Chicago’s new 21-member Board of Education, Mayor Brandon Johnson tapped a group of mostly community organizers and activists and kept all but two of his ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson declined to resign his position with Chicago Public Schools after a high-ranking CPS official raised ethics concerns about a potential conflict of interest, according to a memo ...