The year-long debate over who will pay for the pensions of non-teaching Chicago Public Schools employees ended after a tense, hours-long meeting where the Chicago Board of Education voted to agree ...

Melvin CornfieldNovember 2, 2024Cornfield, a graduate of the College, specialized in tax law. He served as tax director at NBC and later at its parent company, and in the later part of his career led ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 31% job approval rating — up from 26% last summer — follows months of mayoral attacks on budget cuts ...

An impassioned Mayor Brandon Johnson was in his element as he tailored his pitch to reinstate Chicago’s corporate head tax ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s rhetoric around his first Trump-era budget does not, in fact, match the reality of what’s driving the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson laid out his proposal on how to close a projected nearly $1.2 billion budget deficit in 2026.

Brandon Johnson vents his frustration about having to defend his proposed tax on corporations when poor and working people ...

S&P revised Chicago's outlook to negative from stable and affirmed its BBB rating on the city's outstanding general ...

Illinois' General Assembly passed a bill that provides both governance reforms sought by lawmakers and funding to avert a ...

Harvey has the third-lowest property tax collection rate in Cook County, with only 58.29% of 2023 tax bills paid, leaving ...

They were sick of the incessant school closings. They were sick of seeing charter schools open that get wildly uneven results yet are praised to the skies by Arne Duncan and now Rahm Emanuel. They ...