Hoodline3d
Mayor Johnson Launches $230M Affordable Housing Developments in Chicago's West Garfield Park and Near South Side
Mayor Brandon Johnson announces two Chicago housing developments funded by new HED bonds, enhancing affordable housing in the ...
Chicago Sun-Times4d
City Council gives top cop power to keep ShotSpotter, but Johnson vows veto
A ShotSpotter gunshot detector on a traffic signal post at 56th Street and Western Avenue Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share A defiant City Council on Wednesday tried to force Mayor Brandon Johnson ...
Editorial: With ShotSpotter’s looming demise, Brandon Johnson turns his back on neighborhoods whose votes made him mayor
We’ve seen plenty of Chicago mayors do things that turned out to be wildly unpopular in retrospect. Richard M. Daley’s ...
Crain's Chicago Business4d
Showdown over ShotSpotter looms as City Council approves new measure to keep it running
The City Council approved a last-ditch effort today over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objection to try ... who represents portions of the West Side, said “we need help.” “I want to protect ...
Chicago Tribune4d
Ald. Silvana Tabares: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership needs a lesson in math
I haven’t seen Mayor Brandon Johnson’s elementary school report cards, but I can tell you this former teacher-turned-mayor gets an F in governing, both in style and substance or lack thereof.
Chicago magazine3d
City Council Is Seeing Red With Johnson’s Ranks
Mayor Brandon Johnson just appointed one ... a protégé of Jesse White’s organization from the Near West Side. Just how far left is Johnson? He doesn’t call himself a socialist — he prefers ...
Chicago Sun-Times4d
The case for keeping ShotSpotter
Larry Snelling — instead of Mayor Brandon ... by Johnson’s inflexible determination to put a campaign promise ahead of the very real concerns of Council members from South Side and West ...
ABC 7 Chicago5d
Mayor Johnson condemns ShotSpotter as 'a walkie-talkie on a pole' days before system shuts down
CHICAGO -- The gunshot detection system some City Council members are trying desperately to keep is little more than "a walkie-talkie on a pole," Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday. Johnson ...
WBEZ3d
City Council gives top cop power to keep ShotSpotter, but Johnson vows veto
A defiant City Council on Wednesday tried to force Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep the ShotSpotter ... Wednesday’s impassioned debate divided West Side alderpersons representing Chicago’s ...
Days before ShotSpotter’s end, alders try to outmaneuver Mayor Brandon Johnson
Ald. Raymond Lopez on Monday filed paperwork calling for a special session of the City Council in hopes of overruling Mayor ...
Athlon Sports3d
Duck Nickelback Brandon Johnson Plays Like His Mom, But That's a Good Thing
As an athlete, Brandon Johnson takes after his mother. His father Wayne played four years of varsity football at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, but his mother Alanda played ...
Crain's Chicago Business5d
Johnson faces fresh opposition on ShotSpotter as City Council gears up for more fights
Attempting to tie the hands of Mayor Brandon Johnson, supporters in the City Council of the city’s controversial gunshot detection contract with ShotSpotter are plotting a last-ditch effort to ...