Brandon Johnson
News on the 57th mayor of Chicago.
Johnson helped cut the ceremonial ribbon Tuesday at Medinah Temple, which is expected to take bets for the next three years while a bigger permanent casino is built in River West.
“The driving force has always been inequity and injustice that Black and Brown students and their families experience in this city,” CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said. “And that injustice did not roll away on April 4. We just got another gladiator in a place of power.”
A downtown parade or festival would help Chicago avoid sporadic, ad hoc celebrations citywide that jammed streets and caused all sorts of problems.
“In the greatest city in the world, no neighborhood should have to suffer the burdens of pollution more so than any other neighborhood,” the mayor said.
Tipped workers — now paid 60% of Chicago’s minimum wage — would receive annual pay increases of 8% starting next July and continuing through July 2028.
Brandon Johnson’s plan to raise the transfer tax on high-end homes is opposed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democratic legislative leaders.
The mayor called the 223-page document the “foundation for how we will lead our city well into the future.” It’s loaded with ambitious, politically explosive ideas.
The new board will have a different feel than in past years when consultants, lawyers and bankers filled many of the seven seats. Only one of Johnson’s appointees is a lawyer, and she runs a legal aid organization.
With his financial team now in place, the new mayor will do his own forecast and hold several community meetings next month. His predecessor’s “midyear” budget forecast in April claimed an $85 million shortfall — among the lowest in recent Chicago history.
A person was found dead just after midnight in the 5700 block of West Chicago Avenue, according to police.
The application process for those interested in serving the rest of Brandon Johnson’s term on the County Board was announced Wednesday. Those already vying for the spot include three members of the Leaders Network, a West Side faith-based group.
The new mayor met with several immigrants staying at the 12th District police station, telling them he was ‘grateful’ they were here and assuring them that ‘we are going to do everything we can to make this home for you.’
Poco antes de las 11:15 a.m. el lunes, la alcaldesa Lori Lightfoot golpeó el mazo por última vez en el cargo.
Brandon Johnson is set to become Chicago’s 57th mayor May 15.
The mayor-elect Johnson had meetings Wednesday at the White House and the Capitol with the unions that bankrolled his mayoral run, hosting a fundraiser for him.
With a nod to the mayor-elect’s “unfunny” jokes and love of snacks, Cook County Board members feted Johnson before his swearing in next month.
Those likely to be in running to replace departing interim Supt. Eric Carter include three former members of CPD’s leadership team.
Sizable runoff wins in majority-Black precincts allowed Brandon Johnson to erase a 60,000-plus vote deficit from the February general election.
A replacement for the mayor-elect’s seat on the board will be chosen by a group of elected Democratic committeemen. The new commissioner would serve a little over two years.
A delegation led by Beatriz Ponce de Leon, deputy mayor of immigrant, migrant and refugee rights, will lead a small delegation to four Texas cities.
Spending on mental health, youth jobs falls short of Johnson’s goal, but $16.6 billion budget isn’t “balanced on the backs of working-class Chicagoans,” his Council floor leader says.
Mayor Brandon Johnson will stand before the Chicago City Council Wednesday to disclose how he plans to plug a $538 million budget shortfall, more than $200 million of it tied to the migrant crisis.
Council members backed the new law, which supporters say levels the economic playing field for waitstaff in Chicago’s world-class culinary scene.
Southside Recycling, the rebranded metal-shredding operation, sparked a civil rights complaint and an investigation by HUD.
The advice the former president had for the city’s new mayor-elect wasn’t about politics or policy.
Los distritos latinos que se llevó Johnson incluyeron el distrito 22 que es el hogar del ex aspirante a alcalde Jesús “Chuy García, el congresista de La Villita que después respaldó a Johnson.
Es probable que Johnson aumente su margen de victoria a medida que se cuenten las boletas por correo que se entregaron tarde a finales de esta semana. Varios analistas predijeron que podría obtener hasta el 70% de los votos por correo no contados.
Once Johnson and voters know how city departments are doing, it will be easier for him to obtain broad support for necessary corrections.
What will the incoming mayor do about high crime rates and low test scores? Here is what Brandon Johnson said on the campaign trail.
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