Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has argued the 1% city grocery tax is necessary as a state grocery tax that sent ...

As soon as a proposed 1% grocery tax was read into the record, an opponent charged the introduction was flawed and said Mayor ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s top finance leaders urged aldermen to implement the tax soon during a Tuesday meeting of the City Council’s Revenue Subcommittee.

Over 200 Illinois towns have opted to charge a 1% grocery tax. Chicago is likely to follow. Local leaders have until October ...

Chicago must decide by Oct. 1 whether to continue the decades-old one percent grocery tax, which could cost the city between $60 and $80 million in revenue for the 2026 fiscal year.

Chicago and its suburbs, including Evanston and Oak Park, will implement a 1% grocery tax starting June 3, 2025. This measure ...

JB Pritzker’s 2025 budget plan. That takes effect on ... “The city of Chicago will not enact its own grocery tax. The tax already exists. There is a process in which the collection of the ...

Ashok Selvam is the regional editor for Eater Midwest and in charge of coverage in Chicago ... food delivery tax over the weekend that would have impacted restaurants across Illinois. The proposal ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Chicago needs ... to extend this grocery tax. ... If we fail to do the same, we will leave critical services on the chopping block.” The proposal to expand the ...

The legislation, which narrowly passed the U.S. House, could undergo further changes in the Senate, where it’s currently ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed his controversial support for a 1% tax on groceries after a state ... than McCarthy era Kari Lake sends firing plan to Congress that will leave Voice ...