Chicago is one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown after the City Council held a final vote on a budget plan following an hours-long session on Saturday, but the city is not out of the woods ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office said there should be an answer by Monday as to whether the mayor will veto a budget plan passed by the City Council over the weekend. If Mayor Johnson does veto ...

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The new budget is an alternative to the spending plan Mayor Johnson proposed. It does not include a head tax that would tax large corporations, a component for which Mayor Johnson has been pushing.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The City Council's budget standoff with Mayor Brandon Johnson moved another step closer to a vote as their plan faced scrutiny in an important committee Wednesday. Members of the ...

Conservative influencer Benny Johnson arrived in Los Angeles Tuesday promising to blow the lid off “the biggest fraud on ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office said there should be an answer by Monday as to whether the mayor will veto a budget plan passed by the City Council over the weekend. The new budget is an ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he does not plan to sign the "alternative" city budget for 2026 that was passed over the weekend by the City Council. But he didn't veto it, either. Rather, the ...

Chicago has avoided a city government shutdown in 2026. After the City Council gave its final approval to a spending plan over the weekend, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he wouldn't veto the ...

During a news conference that followed Friday’s meeting, Johnson continued to play cat-and-mouse on the question of the day. Asked if he would veto a revenue plan he believes is wildly unbalanced and ...