Category: News

By Heather Cherone, August 24, 2023 That process began in earnest in July, with two high-profile hearings on the cornerstones Read more

By Quinn Myers, August 23, 2023 CHICAGO — A plan to raise the city’s real estate transfer tax on higher Read more

By Shawn Mulcahy, August 24, 2023 Johnson’s support proved key for at least a couple of those proposals, which languished Read more

By Tessa Weinberg, August 24, 2023 Mayor Brandon Johnson campaigned on enacting the real estate transfer tax increase, known as Read more

By ALEX NITKIN, August 23, 2023 In the end, most of the American cities that imposed graduated real estate transaction Read more

By Michael Liptrot, August 1, 2023 The City Council held a hearing Thursday to discuss a referendum on raising the Read more

By Alice Yin, July 30, 2023 The mayor also shouted out two activist-backed proposals from his 100-day agenda — Treatment Read more

By Justin Laurence, Leigh Giangreco, July 27, 2023 The renewed legislative effort to raise the one-time tax on the sale of Read more

By Fran Spielman, July 27, 2023 As originally proposed, the long-stalled ordinance known as “Bring Chicago Home” would more than triple Read more

By Alice Yin and Lizzie Kane, July 27, 2023 “I’m sorry this has taken multiple, multiple years,” Ald. Maria Hadden, 49th, said.“This Read more