Ald. Nicole Lee (11) speaks at a special City Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A group of Chicago alderpeople are hoping to meet soon with the mayor’s finance team to deliberate the details of the council members’ alternative budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that swaps out many of the mayor’s controversial solutions to a $1.189 billion gap, such as a corporate head tax, reduced advanced pension payment and hundreds of millions of dollars in new borrowing for firefighter backpay. 

The mayor and his budget team have not embraced the solutions, however, signaling the stalemate could continue.