Editorial: With ShotSpotter’s looming demise, Brandon Johnson turns his back on neighborhoods whose votes made him mayor
We’ve seen plenty of Chicago mayors do things that turned out to be wildly unpopular in retrospect. Richard M. Daley’s ...
Ald. Silvana Tabares: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership needs a lesson in math
It’s an age-old maxim to say politics is a game of addition, not subtraction. Coalition building is about bringing people ...
Mayor Johnson rejects plan to keep ShotSpotter; company to remove gunshot sensors
A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson indicated he would veto a council effort aimed at keeping ShotSpotter – the controversial ...
Mayor Johnson condemns ShotSpotter as 'a walkie-talkie on a pole' days before system shuts down
The city spent "$100 million for a walkie-talkie on a pole, and the reason why they said we needed it was to reduce gun ...
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City Council cracks down on lobbyist campaign donations to mayor after Johnson took contributions
The rule puts teeth in an Emanuel-era ethics policy by empowering a board to suspend lobbyists who contribute to mayoral ...
Chicago alderpeople vote to keep ShotSpotter technology, Mayor Johnson plans to veto
Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to get rid of the controversial gunshot detection program, saying it's too expensive and doesn't ...
Johnson accused of picking another police-related fight with City Council
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has authorized selling a former Illinois National Guard armory to the city for $1 for the "express purpose ...