"New neighbor" update:
Two Venezuelan men have been given six-year prison sentences for mugging 3 women inside a Buena Park apartment building late last year.
https://t.co/E2u8IuVzlu
@Xfinity is becoming the absolute worst. It's like pulling teeth to get past all the AI and terrible foreign customer service individuals just to have a technician come out for internet issues.
A Blue Line robbery suspect, AWOL from another CTA attack case and wanted in 3 counties, is finally in custody.
Chicago cops caught him after CTA passengers complained because he was smoking crack on the train.
Yes, he was on electronic monitoring.
https://t.co/wrocCpIW6N
Two years after the Mayor pulled the plug on ShotSpotter, aldermen were ready to pounce on one of his top aides yesterday.
She no-showed and sent a letter instead, saying the city would launch a “pilot program” that includes “gunshot detection systems.
https://t.co/xXYd2T87ZE
Dear @ChicagosMayor#Brandon4Chicago,
It is interesting that your administration continues to appear more concerned with advancing the agenda of your Puppet Master, Stacy Davis Gates and the Chicago Teachers Union than with protecting the financial future of the city you were elected to lead.
You seem very determined to push Chicago further down a path of financial instability with your continued support for a so-called “Corporate Head Tax,” arguing that corporations need to “pay their fair share.”
I have a few questions for you.
Did you apply that same principle of accountability to your own financial obligations before becoming mayor? Why did it take extensive news coverage for you to address your reported outstanding debts to the city? Shouldn’t accountability begin with the people demanding it from others?
And let’s talk about public safety and the resources devoted to protecting you.
You have over 150 Chicago Police Officers at your fingertips for you and your family's safety and security.
At a time when residents are seeing longer response times for officers due to the @Chicago_Police districts constantly being understaffed and constant back logs of calls for service.
Chicagoans deserve transparency about the resources devoted to protecting you and your family while regular citizens can't even ride the @cta without fear of being the victim of a violent crime.
How much does your security detail cost taxpayers, and is that level of protection justified? Are you paying your share or are the taxpayers paying it for you?
Chicago residents deserve answers.
Now, your administration is advancing discussions about a potential “cloud tax,” adding yet another concern for businesses already evaluating the cost of operating in Chicago.
At what point do you recognize that continually pursuing new taxes could discourage investment, drive businesses to neighboring communities, threaten jobs, and further weaken the city’s tax base?
Chicago needs responsible fiscal management, not an endless search for new revenue without a clear, measurable plan to control spending.
And what about the money already spent?
Your administration’s handling of illegal migrants had the city spending over 650 million dollars including the reported lease of a potentially contaminated property intended for illegal migrant housing that was ultimately abandoned, raises serious questions about vetting, contracting, and the responsible use of public funds. But the city continues paying for a property that is no longer being used for its intended purpose, good money for the owner of the property.
Chicago taxpayers and Businesses are not an unlimited source of revenue at your expense.
Effective leadership which you lack, means making difficult decisions, prioritizing essential services, protecting public safety, and ensuring that every public dollar is spent responsibly. It does not mean continually asking taxpayers and businesses to cover the consequences of questionable decisions.
Mayor Johnson, all of Chicago deserves more than political rhetoric and another proposed tax spearheaded by your bosses at the @ctu. Chicago deserves transparency, accountability, fiscal discipline, and leadership that puts the interests of all Chicago residents and Businesses ahead of political alliances.
The question is simple: When will Chicago’s taxpayers see the same level of accountability from City Hall that City Hall demands from them?
Get your head out the clouds and out the pockets of already struggling residents and businesses alike.
#Chicago #News
Play it again, Brandon.
As details begin to seep out, Mayor Johnson’s budget is revealed to be a rehash of his 2026 budget.
Johnson will once again try to convince us he is taxing “big corporations” and “protecting working families,” but his budget like the last does neither.
Here are some immutable truths about the 2027 budget:
• The proposed jobs killing $25 per-employee head tax is laid on large businesses even if the company does not record a profit.
• The already nation leading transaction tax will rise to 20% to the cost to any business or individual who accesses computer services.
• Johnson will add another $285 million in property taxes from TIF’s to the $300 million increase in property taxes already approved by his controlled school board.
• Despite Johnson’s “tax-the-rich” rhetoric, Chicago residents could face several other new fees and taxes if the mayor’s budget is passed.
None of what the mayor is proposing will require billionaires and millionaires to pay their “fair share.”
What a croc. Guess you forgot about those millions you squandered on illegal migrants and other boatloads of wasted money under your incompetent administration huh @ChicagosMayor? #Brandon4Chicago
I spoke with Chicagoans of all ages from neighborhoods across the City about our budget and heard a continuous refrain: after receiving billions in tax breaks from Donald Trump, it's time we ask large corporations to pay their fair share.
Nineteen cars stolen in two weeks across Fulton Market and West Town.
CPD says the crimes are related — but they haven't said how the thieves took them.
Key fob duplicators are one leading possibility.
https://t.co/MWHXHEq3kI
Big day for our campaign!
Proud to be endorsed by @SEIULocal1 and @SEIULocal73 💜 Together they represent 50,000 working people across Chicago, and I'll fight for every one of them. Let's win this. #demandbetter
This is another perfect example of the collective failure of official leadership in Chicago.
CPD receives a call of a man with gun.
10th District officers arrive and carry out a search.
Residents harass CPD.
Until lawmakers stop depicting CPD as the neighborhood bully, residents will continue refuse to cooperate with and hound police.
Video: @chiccrimechaser.
@Giannoulias The only people you're standing with is Big Business and special interests groups who have given your campaign millions in "Donations." Stop it.
The only people you're standing with is Big Business and special interests groups who have given your campaign millions in "Donations." Stop it #Giannoulias
Standing with families, neighbors, and people of all ages at Oz Park for the No Kings rally! Because democracy belongs to all of us.
This was an amazing family-friendly celebration of community, freedom, and the power of using our voices.
What he meant to say was the thousands being wheeled in line at the trauma hospitals due to his incompetence and pro criminal policies but want "Businesses to pay their fair share." #Chicago
"At a time when they're waiting in lines for food."
What a crock.
Predictably, the mayor is lying when he portrays tens of thousands of Chicago residents standing on street corners holding begging bowls.
There is a raft of federal programs to help the impoverished: SNAP, WIC, School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, Summer EBT and Summer Food Service Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program.
On top of these handouts, there is the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the elderly and the Emergency Food Assistance Program assists food pantries.
For the working poor, they are eligible for food stamps, Medicaid, Section 8 housing, and the EITC.
The mayor is a godawful liar.
"At a time when they're waiting in lines for food."
What a crock.
Predictably, the mayor is lying when he portrays tens of thousands of Chicago residents standing on street corners holding begging bowls.
There is a raft of federal programs to help the impoverished: SNAP, WIC, School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, Summer EBT and Summer Food Service Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program.
On top of these handouts, there is the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the elderly and the Emergency Food Assistance Program assists food pantries.
For the working poor, they are eligible for food stamps, Medicaid, Section 8 housing, and the EITC.
The mayor is a godawful liar.
Notice how this incompetent individual and his puppet masters at the @CTULocal1 are saying this same rhetoric? The @CTULocal1 is running #Chicago folks. Thats why @ChicagosMayor needs to be a one time failure.
I will not balance our budget on the backs of working people at a time when they're waiting in lines for food and corporate profit margins are at all-time highs.
What a way to start my Saturday. Thank God it wasn't major because my son was on that side. Add insult to injury, no license and no insurance and had the audacity to want to work out a "side deal."
Thank you @OakForestPolice for your assistance.