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(The Center Square) – Although the Chicago City Council passed a budget for 2025 this week, the city’s financial problems are not going away. Chicago taxpayers are looking at a billion-dollar ...
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson eked out a victory Monday with the narrow passage of a $17.3 billion municipal budget plan that does not raise property taxes. The 27-23 vote came just weeks ...
The Chicago City Council finally passed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget on Monday with a 27-23 vote. ... cuts across city departments. The budget also includes a $128 million cloud computing ...
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 General Assembly passed a series of budget bills to the Governor; however, on June 25, 2015, he vetoed most of them. [7] One notable exception to the Governor's veto was a partial budget for the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), which manages Illinois' K-12 education. In August 2015 a supplemental education budget would be passed.
Cook County, which includes the City of Chicago, is the United States' second-largest county with a population of 5.2 million residents. The county board sets policy and laws for the county regarding property, public health services, public safety, and maintenance of county highways. [ 1 ]
Chicago's financial woes are no secret at this point, and the mayor's $17.3 billion proposed budget still includes a $982 million deficit. Johnson sought to fill the gap with a now-failed $300 ...
The Johnson administration is proposing to install $2.64 million worth of new speed cameras, which it estimates will generate $11.43 million toward covering the cost of restoring those CPD vacancies.