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NOV 13, 2026
A CPD emblem is pictured. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) on Thursday evening voted to recommend the mayor pick from a slate of three current police leaders to succeed former Supt. Larry Snelling as the leader of the Chicago Police Department (CPD).
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NOV 13, 2026
Willie Wilson speaks with Dan Gibbons at City Club. [Livestream]
Businessman Willie Wilson opened his City Club of Chicago address Tuesday by comparing Chicago’s budget to a truck that has lost its brakes on a mountain highway.
“Relating that to Chicago, it has a runaway budget,” Wilson said. “Somebody needs to stop it. And ladies and gentlemen, I’m here to stop it.”
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NOV 12, 2026
OPSA Executive Director Era Patterson takes questions from Ald. Raymond Lopez (15) at a budget hearing on Nov. 5, 2026. [Livestream]
The Office of Public Safety Administration (OPSA) at a budget hearing last Thursday responded to aldermanic concerns about its ongoing goal to realize the cost savings and efficiencies it was meant to generate when the office was set up nearly seven years ago.
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NOV 11, 2026
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Mayor Brandon Johnson is pictured at a City Council meeting on Sept. 25, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The mayor told the City Council on Tuesday that he’s reworking his proposals to institute a new corporate head tax and raise the tax on the lease of personal property as he works to reach the necessary number of votes to pass a budget.
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NOV 11, 2026
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Acting Corporation Counsel Renee Hatcher takes questions from Ald. Samantha Nugent (39) at a budget hearing on Nov. 10, 2026. [Livestream]
The city Department of Law (DOL) on Tuesday gave alderpeople at a budget hearing an overview of its efforts to continue to improve recovery of the outstanding fines, penalties and tickets owed by people and businesses.
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NOV 11, 2026
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Inspector General David Glockner answers questions from Ald. Matt Martin (47) at a budget hearing on Nov. 10, 2026. [Livestream]
The Chicago Office of the Inspector General (OIG) discussed the reasoning behind a proposed decrease in its allocated workforce next year during a budget hearing with alderpeople on Thursday.
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NOV 11, 2026
Ald. Bill Conway (34) questions Chicago Board of Elections leaders at a budget hearing on Nov. 9, 2026. [Livestream]
Chicago Board of Elections leaders apologized Monday for a coding error that left voters in some precincts without ballots on Election Day during a budget hearing in which alderpeople spent most of the time pressing them on long lines, missing equipment and poor communication with City Council members ahead of the February 2027 municipal election.
The board is requesting $48.45 million for 2027, an increase of $20.59 million, or 73.87 percent, over this year, according to the Council Office of Financial Analysis. The increase reflects the Feb. 23 municipal election, the April 6 runoff and preparations for 2028.
Next year’s board budget is about $8 million less than the $56.6 million the board received in 2023, the last mayoral election year, according to the city’s budget overview.
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NOV 10, 2026
Chief Procurement Officer Sharla Roberts is questioned by Ald. Samantha Nugent (39) at a budget hearing on Nov. 9, 2026. [Livestream]
Chief Procurement Officer Sharla Roberts faced a flurry of aldermanic ire at a Monday budget hearing after she walked back a previous announcement of a forthcoming program to temporarily test a bevy of gun violence detection and response technology that could potentially replace the city’s former ShotSpotter acoustic gunshot detection system.
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NOV 10, 2026
Human Resources Comm. Tiheta Hinton responds to questions from Ald. Bill Conway (34) at a budget hearing on Nov. 9, 2026. [Livestream]
Chicago Department of Human Resources (DHR) Comm. Tiheta Hinton, who was confirmed by the City Council last month, responded to questions on Monday about progress implementing savings opportunities and better handling of employee data during a departmental budget hearing.
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NOV 10, 2026
The Department of Family and Support Services answers questions from alderpeople at a budget hearing on Nov. 6, 2026. [Livestream]
Alderpeople on Friday pressed Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) officials on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed expansions of the city’s summer youth jobs program and homelessness services, questioning how a $24 million boost for youth jobs would be spent and how the department serves people experiencing homelessness.
Johnson’s 2027 budget proposal includes the additional $24 million for Chicago Youth Works, which the mayor’s office said would fund a record 40,000 paid positions, as well as an additional $15 million for DFSS’ homeless services.
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NOV 09, 2026
Ald. Nicole Lee (11) speaks at a special City Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
Mayor Brandon Johnson is taking the passage of two local ballot measures supporting a statewide millionaire tax as a sign that his administration is on the right path in fighting for more progressive revenue.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias each face two challenges to their nominating petitions, among 14 objections filed against mayoral candidates seeking to get on the Feb. 23, 2027 ballot, according to a list released Wednesday by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
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NOV 06, 2026
Ald. Emma Mitts (37) asks CACC Executive Director Susan Cappello questions at a budget hearing on Nov. 5, 2026. [Livestream]
The leadership of Chicago Animal Care and Control (CACC) told alderpeople at a City Council budget hearing Thursday that the sizable proposed increase in its budget next year would fund “lifesaving” services for animals.
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NOV 05, 2026
DOH Comm. Lissette Castañeda answers questions from Ald. Andre Vasquez (40) at a budget hearing on Nov. 4, 2026. [Livestream]
The Chicago Department of Housing (DOH) on Wednesday presented its 2027 budget proposal, under which Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to substantially increase the allocation of corporate funding the department receives.
The extra money is not budgeted to accommodate parts of the mayor’s rental housing code reform ordinance, which if passed would add new responsibilities to the department.
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NOV 05, 2026
DCASE Comm. Kenya Merritt answers questions from Ald. Bennett Lawson (44) in a budget hearing on Nov. 4, 2026. [Livestream]
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) presented its budget to alderpeople on Wednesday, and Comm. Kenya Merritt discussed how her department is working to implement the cost recovery recommendations of a savings and efficiencies report.
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