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 administration has argued the 1% city grocery tax is necessary as a state grocery tax that sent ...

The small but quickly growing Clay County city has run into several major roadblocks, including past failed partnerships with ...

Efforts to overhaul Cook County’s property tax system largely fizzled out in the Illinois state legislature this session.

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

Chicago officials have backed away from plans for a city-owned grocery store, and private chains have proven unreliable. But community organizations continue innovating to meet residents’ needs.

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 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 ...

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 ...