A WBEZ analysis shows the city of Chicago hired or promoted 490 people since a hiring freeze was put in place in September.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share The city has hired or promoted 490 employees in the six weeks since Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a hiring freeze, with the Chicago Police Department ...

Any government official who has mandated a hiring freeze knows that the first thing they will hear from department heads is how any such declaration cannot possibly apply to them. “We’re too important ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday issued a hiring freeze on city government positions, including police, as his administration ...

Chris Taliaferro says Mayor Brandon Johnson made the only decision he could make in deciding not to include police officers as part of the city’s new hiring freeze. “I just believe that ...

As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his 2024 budget address during a City Council meeting Wednesday, he is expected to ...

As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is expected to propose a property tax increase during Wednesday's City Council meeting, some ...

Sources say Mayor Brandon Johnson will announce a property tax hike during his budget address, despite campaign promises not to.

While campaigning to be mayor prior to his election in April 2023, Brandon Johnson repeatedly vowed he would not raise city ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's $17.3 billion budget for 2025 says a lot, as all budgets do. It not only tells a tale of how his ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday proposed Chicago’s largest property ... Offloading that burden — along with enacting an ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses the City Council Wednesday as ... That means cutting vacancies across city departments except ...