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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has argued the 1% city grocery tax is necessary as a state grocery tax that sent revenue to municipalities ends.
The grocery tax would bring in about $80 million for the city's 2026 budget, The Tribune reported. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the push came from "top mayoral aides" to alderpeople.
The Chicago Tribune cautioned Democratic New York voters about mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Monday, comparing his ...
The Mokena Village Board voted 6-0 to implement a 1% grocery tax to bring in about $850,000 a year, replacing a repealed ...
A proposed 1% grocery tax in Chicago got off to a rocky start today in the City Council as soon as it was introduced. Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, had been waiting to use a parliamentary maneuver to ...
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's plan for city-owned grocery stores faces criticism from economists and business leaders.
Americans have reason to be alarmed. Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal, pitched as a call for market intervention ...
Chicago ended 2024 with no unassigned fund balance after CPS skipped a key pension payment, leaving Mayor Johnson with less ...
As Seth Barron observed in City Journal, “Mamdani’s quaint suggestion that the lack of a profit motive will make it easier to ...