Mayor Johnson to present budget proposal
Mayor Brandon Johnson will share his budget proposal on Thursday morning. Here s how it could impact taxpayers.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson will share his budget proposal on Thursday morning. Here s how it could impact taxpayers.
The city's top watchdog has recommended Mayor Brandon Johnson's right-hand man, senior adviser Jason Lee, be fired for failing to cooperate with a misconduct investigation, but the mayor is standing by his top aide.
The move comes days after Johnson signed the "ICE Free Zone" executive order.
Community members, private landowners, medical providers, and others visited the site to get the signage.
Speaking as a hearing on a lawsuit preventing National Guard deployment got underway, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said it's a "sad state in America" when they "have to go to court to protect the people of our city."
"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]" Officers!" President Trump posted. "Governor Pritzker also!"
A new boiling point in the heated rhetoric between the White House and top Democrats in Illinois; In a Truth Social post, President Trump on Wednesday called for Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson to be thrown in jail.
Johnson's executive order prohibits ICE and other federal agencies from using city property for civil immigration enforcement, and provides protection for private property refusing access to those agents.
The Trump administration has flexed federal power to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and Portland. Illinois and Oregon have responded with lawsuits. Here's where things stand as of Monday.
The order prohibits federal agencies from using city-owned property and vacant lots for staging, processing or otherwise executing immigration enforcement. It also protects private owners and tenants who want to bar ICE from their property.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring federal agents from operating or staging immigration enforcement on city-owned property, as well as protecting private property owners who deny them access as well.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's executive order prohibits ICE and other federal agencies from using city property for civil immigration enforcement, and provides protection for private property refusing access to those agents.
"What I have warned of is now being realized. One thing is clear: none of what Trump is doing is making Illinois safer," Pritzker said.
Mayor Johnson called the armed federal troops on Michigan Avenue "a disgrace," and vowed that Chicago will "continue to stand united as a city, as a county, as a state and local villages to reject any attempts to militarize our cities."
Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson comment on reports of armed federal agents spotted on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago on Sunday.
Mayor Brandon Johnson presented the official proclamation to the event's founder, Riot Mike.
Members of Chicago's law enforcement community are taking offense with a comment made by Mayor Brandon Johnson, after he said this week, in part, "jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness."
A task force formed by the mayor has released a report detailing a laundry list of ideas for cutting spending and raising new revenue in the face of a $1.15 billion budget shortfall.
Democratic elected officials in Chicago are responding after President Donald Trump again appeared to threaten to send in troops for a widespread immigration and crime crackdown.
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday named Walter Redmond Burnett to fill the 27th Ward seat on the City Council vacated by his father, former Ald. Walter Burnett Jr.
There was a protest Sunday outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement staging facility in Broadview, Illinois, calling for the closure of the center in the western suburbs.
The signing of the "Protecting Chicago Initiative" comes amid growing concerns of federal agents arriving in the city as soon as Friday.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is fighting back against the White House’s plan to step up immigration enforcement in Chicago, signing an executive order attempting to put barriers on what federal agents and Chicago police can do.
Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a sweeping but largely symbolic executive order Saturday afternoon to protect residents' rights in preparation for federal agents possibly arriving in Chicago for a major immigration enforcement effort. The order also seeks to bar any federal agents working in Chicago from wearing masks, and to require them to wear badges and other identifying information.
The first-term mayor said he's received "highly credible reports" that federal agents would arrive in the city in a matter of days. However, he did not say exactly when agents will arrive or how that may look.
