City Council approves alternate revenue plan — minus Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax – Chicago Sun-Times
December 20, 2025
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“The mayor led us to this fiscal cliff. If there is a shutdown, he wears the jacket for it. Today was the first step in really trying to prevent that from happening,” Ald. Scott Waguespack said.
The projected shortfalls would begin in the Commonwealth Edison service territory in northern Illinois by 2029 and in the Ameren service area that covers most of downstate Illinois by 2031. They’d continue to worsen and make Illinois more reliant on energy imports without action by state policymakers.