Taxpayer Ambush: Brandon Johnson Defends $17 Billion in Spending While Chicago Police Bleed Hundreds of Millions in Secret Overruns: Chicagoland’s Week In Review

Between a half-billion-dollar police budget blowout and City Hall’s new 17 billion dollar spending plan, Chicago taxpayers are facing an unprecedented reckoning. With early voting lines swelling across Cook County, neighborhood frustration is turning municipal finance into the decisive issue of the season.