Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign last quarter returned $120,000 from two political action committees both led by developers with active city contracts, the latest instances of his political fund giving back money amid ethical and accounting issues.

Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke with CBS News Chicago Monday morning to defend his 2026 budget proposal, which aims to close a fiscal hole of more than $1 billion.

It’s all on quicksand — the very quicksand that has us really up against it financially… when there is no help coming from Springfield. There is no help coming from Washington obviously,” Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson told the Sun-Times.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss his call for a national movement of working people to organize against growing inequality under the Trump administration. Mayor Johnson says,

The Chicago City Council begins their hearings on Mayor Brandon Johnson's 2026 budget proposal Tuesday. The Committee on Budget and Government Operations will meet for the first time in the morning to pick over the proposal.

The president's Truth Social post on Friday morning came a day after federalized National Guard troops arrived in Illinois.

The order also bans city officials from inquiring about an individual’s immigration status unless legally forced to do so.