WATCH: Chicago Mayor Scrambles When Asked Why His Budget Makes the City Worse Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson held a press conference at City Hall on Friday to promote his revised budget proposal, a plan that reflects the same pattern that has defined his administration from the beginning: higher taxes, confused priorities, and no serious strategy to address the city’s long-term decline. Johnson framed the budget as a major step toward “protecting working people,” but the substance of the proposal demonstrates the opposite. Chicago now faces structural financial pressures, persistent public safety challenges, and declining business confidence, none of which are meaningfully addressed in the plan presented. The proposal includes a revived corporate head tax, new business surcharges, an expanded sweep of the TIF surplus, and…
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