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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team teased plans this week to take another swing at raising property taxes to close the city ...
Brandon Johnson was sworn in as mayor of the nation's third-largest city Monday at a ceremony attended by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin. Johnson, 47, a ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson sounds alarm about Chicago budget 02:50. Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking down the financial road from City Hall, and sounding an alarm of sorts for members of the Chicago ...
Brandon Johnson took to the stage after his election in Chicago. “Now Chicago will begin to work for its people, all the people,” said Mr. Johnson, who had worked as a social studies teacher.
Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, explains how he plans to manage the nation’s third-largest city in a complicated moment. By Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith Reporting from Chicago It wasn ...
In 2011, Johnson, a former elementary-school teacher, was hired by the Chicago Teachers Union to be an organizer. By then, the newly energized union was gearing up to fight the effects of fifteen ...
Brandon Johnson — the Cook County commissioner, former Chicago Teachers Union organizer and Chicago Public Schools teacher — was inaugurated as Chicago’s 57th mayor.