Baltimore leaders are considering selling the city-owned Hilton hotel after the city provided the hotel with a million-dollar grant Wednesday to help pay bills.
In the same week that Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the city of Chicago faces a $538 million budget gap over the next three years and that he doesn’t plan to increase property taxes to close it, the new administration floated the idea of a city-owned grocery store in neighborhoods that lack access to fresh foods. The plan, popular among progressives, assumes that the city can succeed where .
Mayor Johnson has announced that Chicago has partnered with the Economic Security Project to work on a pathway toward opening a city-owned grocery store.