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When Mayor Brandon Johnson introduced his 2024 budget, he noted the city had for too long balanced such spending plans on the backs of working people and vowed to end the practice. A “$95 city sticker or a $100 parking ticket weighs more heavily on the family that earns $30,000 a year versus a family that earns $150,000 a year,” he said, and the city had “relied too long on a tax structure ...

Brandon Johnson had previously critiqued how the city has used a tax structure that relies on property taxes, fines and fees, and yet his 2024 proposed budget counts on $46 million more in fines and fees than this year.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued unprecedented lame-duck executive orders during her last weeks in office setting up potential conflicts with City Council.

 On Friday, May 12, 2023, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot signed an Executive Order requiring the Comptroller, in consultation with the Office of Budget and

Tickets would be mailed to scofflaws after one warning under the proposed pilot program.

Two new programs offer ways to get out from under a pile of tickets for things like playing your radio too loud, littering or having an overflowing dumpster.

Chicago has rolled out its gas card and transportation card programs alongside the pilot of a guaranteed income program for families struggling to pay for their essentials.

Lightfoot administration officials are in the process of hiring an outside company to run the program, which aims to provide 5,000 low-income households with the monthly cash payments for 12

Five thousand Chicagoans are due to receive $500 in monthly payments for a year.