As he crafts Chicago’s 2025 budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson has less and less time and not enough money. The mayor faces a nearly $1 billion budget gap, an increasingly unruly City Council and a ...

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In her office in the southern Illinois community of Pinckneyville, population 5,005, Tammy Kellerman worked as a bookkeeper for the rural fire protection district that answers calls outside the 6 ...

Durk "has not been convicted of anything. ... It is not my position to determine the outcome of someone’s life," Johnson said ...

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Rapper Lil Durk lost his "Key to Village" after arrest in murder-for-hire plot, but Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson holding onto donation.

Mayor Brandon Johnson responded Friday to questions about his connection to a Grammy Award-winning Chicago rapper charged in a murder-for-hire plot.