The city of Aurora is planning to host town halls on the next two Saturdays about the proposed 2026 budget, which includes ...

Gov. JB Pritzker came out in opposition Tuesday to the reinstated $21-per-employee “head tax” on larger businesses that Mayor Johnson proposed to balance the 2026 budget.

Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in ...

Johnson's hand-picked Finance Committee chair, Ald. Pat Dowell, says she won't support a head tax and urged Johnson to not call the plan for a vote.

The city paid accounting giant Ernst & Young $3.2 million to pinpoint as much as $1.4 billion in savings and ...

The proposed budget is built around controversial proposals such as a new tax on hemp products and an employee head tax.

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 marathon session before the City Council’s Budget and Government Operations Committee on Monday made it clear there is no ...

The project overall will cost $241.6 million and would repurpose about 485,000 square feet of underutilized commercial space ...

CHICAGO – A Border Patrol agent cracking down on immigration in Chicago appeared to brag about shooting a woman he said ...

Chicago’s Inspector General Deborah Witzburg joins us to unpack a shocking new report detailing indecent exposure, sexual misconduct, and PPP loan fraud involving city employees — and what it means ...