The Latest Breaking News from Brandon Johnson

Four mass shootings happened from late Friday to early Tuesday, according to Chicago police. Mayor says it will take more than police ‘go get ourselves out of this rut.’

The needless, tragic murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teen, by a white Chicago police officer in 2014 put the city’s Police Department, and the need to reform it, in the national spotlight. McDonald’s death was a driving force behind the federally mandated consent decree that requires the Chicago Police…

Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) said he volunteered the field house —possibly through Dec. 31 — because “stagnation has to come to an end.”

“Under my watch, we will make sure that the brutal history of police brutality is fully addressed,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Friday said before the Juneteenth flag was raised in Daley Center Plaza.

Wide receiver seems to be one of the Broncos' deepest positions ahead of training camp.

Jack Lavin, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce president, still isn’t willing, however, to back $800 million in business taxes Mayor Brandon Johnson wants for social programs that are key to his anti-violence strategy.

A top mayoral aide said Johnson’s signature was unwittingly attached to a document authorizing the payment, which covered a contract extension that was approved by Lori Lightfoot.

For each new administration, the Civic Federation tries to make confronting Chicago’s financial challenges a little easier, analyzing the pros and cons of taxes, fines and fees — but without taking a definitive position on any of them.

Now the Fraternal Order of Police — no surprise — wants the same benefit without bargaining. And Johnson gave Chicagoans another reason to think he’ll put his former CTU colleagues first by rubber-stamping whatever the teachers union wants.