Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Budget Group Announces Familiar Ideas to Plug Gaping Hole

Chicago Budget Task Force Recommends Tax Hikes, Higher Fees To Close $1 Billion Gap

A task force made up of civic and business leaders issued the budget report Tuesday. It includes almost 90 recommendations to help fill the city's $1.15 billion budget hole, including flexible furlough days for city workers.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget group announces familiar ideas to plug gaping hole

CHICAGO — After months of closed door meetings and zipped lips from its members, a working group appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson to give him ideas to to plug next year’s $1.15 billion budget gap is rolling out a bunch…

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget group announces familiar ideas to plug gaping hole

After months of closed door meetings and zipped lips from its members, a working group appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson to give him ideas to to plug next year’s $1.15 billion budget gap is rolling out a bunch of largely familiar, in some cases improbable options for Chicago officials to consider. The report is a mix of revenue increases and cuts, but it omits bolder ideas backed by progressive groups like a payroll expense tax on corporations,…

Chicago Budget Leaders Float Cuts and Fee Hikes to Fix Deficit

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget working group has given him dozens of options — including furloughs, hiring freezes, fee increases and a property tax hike tied to inflation — to choose from as he works to close a $1.15 billion deficit for next year.

Mayor Johnson's task force rolls out road map to erase Chicago's $1.15B shortfall

Revenue ideas run the gamut — from raising taxes on bottled water, liquor, plastic bags, and retail deliveries to restoring the $4-a-month employee head tax. Cost-cutting options include flexible furlough days that Mayor Brandon Johnson has avoided for fear of alienating the labor unions that helped put him in office.

Mayor Johnson’s task force rolls out road map to erase Chicago’s $1.15B shortfall

A new report commissioned by Mayor Brandon Johnson lays out a vast array of options with potential to save the city as much as $455.5 million and generate as much as $1.65 billion in new revenue. Johnson gave the group chaired by influential businessman Jim Reynolds and Chicago Urban League President Karen Freeman-Wilson carte blanche to create a road map to erase Chicago’s $1.15 billion budget shortfall, and the 24-member group of civic leaders…