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(The Center Square) – The Chicago City Council could approve a new budget with more than $230 million in tax increases before the end of the week. Before a fire alarm went off in the council ...
The Chicago City Council ©ChicagoMayorsOffice Facebook Chicago taxpayers are looking at a billion-dollar deficit after elected officials raised the budget from $16.6 billion this year to $17.1 ...
However, the city of Chicago has a long history of budget deficits. In 2023, the city projected a $538 million dollar deficit, nearly half of the projected shortfall for 2025.
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.
The City Council is the legislative branch and is made up of 50 alderpersons, one elected from each ward in the city. [1] The council takes official action through the passage of ordinances and resolutions and approves the city budget. [2] Government priorities and activities are established in a budget ordinance usually adopted each November.
The Rental Assistance Demonstration is a federal housing program that was enacted as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, [1] and is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Broadly, the purpose of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (or RAD) is to provide a set of tools to ...
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson needs the approval of 26 of the city’s alders to pass his proposed budget. But if a group of them who signed onto a letter to him stay true to their word, he ...
The clerk is a citywide elected office, and is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, along with the Mayor and the Treasurer. The current city clerk is Anna Valencia. One former city clerk is more famous for his non-political activities: The late Baseball Hall of Famer Cap Anson served one term from 1905-1907.