Stuck inside Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal for 2024 is the disclosure that he, the city clerk, the treasurer and a vast majority of the Chicago City Council’s 50 members have accepted a pay raise for next year. At 2.24%, the across-the-board hike is a more modest bump than the 9.6% raise aldermen were able to accept at this time last year just before facing voters at the ballot box. .
Mayor Brandon Johnson presents $16.6 billion 2024 city budget to the City Council. His supporters will have to settle for a downpayment on the spending front. And they’ll need to wait a while for the tax burden to be shifted to businesses and wealthy Chicagoans.
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