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(The Center Square) – With about six weeks left to get a new city budget passed, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is headed back to the drawing board after his proposal to hike property taxes was ...
The 27-23 vote came just weeks before the end-of-the-year deadline, avoiding what would have been Chicago’s first shutdown of the city government. The mayor needed at least 26 of 50 alders for a ...
Chicago's City Council unanimously confirmed Larry Snelling as the city's police superintendent Wednesday, elevating the department's counterterrorism chief to lead a department coping with a ...
The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois. It consists of 50 alderpersons elected from 50 wards to serve four-year terms. [ 1 ] The council is called into session regularly, usually monthly, to consider ordinances, orders, and resolutions whose subject matter includes code changes ...
The 2023 Chicago elections took place in two rounds on February 28, 2023, and April 4, 2023. Elections were held for Mayor of Chicago, City Clerk of Chicago, City Treasurer of Chicago, all 50 members of the Chicago City Council, and 66 members of the newly created police District Councils.
Generally speaking, the mayor and city departments comprise the executive branch of the city government, and the city council comprises the legislative branch. [3] However, the mayor does have some formal legislative functions such as being the presiding officer of the council and being able to break tie votes, and informally has dominated legislative activity since the late 19th century.
(The Center Square) – Chicago city residents are giving elected officials an earful as the city looks to craft a budget facing a billion dollar deficit. Monday morning, the city council started ...
Bill Conway, [2] Chicago City Council alderperson since 2023, candidate for Cook County state's attorney in 2020; Rahm Emanuel, [3] former mayor (2011–2019), U.S. ambassador to Japan, 2022–2025, former White House chief of staff (2009–10), former U.S. congressman from IL–5 (2003–09), former senior advisor to the U.S. president (1993–98)