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 and its suburbs, including Evanston and Oak Park, will implement a 1% grocery tax starting June 3, 2025. This measure aims to address budget deficits and support essential public services like ...

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

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 ...

This grocery tax elimination proposal is a pretty darned solid play ... The grocery tax elimination also whacks the City of Chicago’s budget by $60 million to $80 million, according to the ...

CHICAGO (CBS ... or to go to the grocery store. The Johnson administration started at $300 million for a proposed property tax hike—which the City Council voted down unanimously.

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Governor JB Pritzker's plan to permanently eliminate the ... Wheaton's mayor estimates if the grocery tax is eliminated, they would lose more than $2 million a year.