Chicago alders urge Mayor Johnson to slow down on $16.7B budget push – FOX32 (Chicago)

Ald. Brian Hopkins is questioning the timing, as folks will be hearing about these higher taxes just as their second installment Cook County property tax bills arrive in the mail. "People will open their tax bill and they'll get angry, and they'll call their elected official and they'll say, 'what's going on here? Why did my bills go up?' They don't want to hear that elected official say, 'well, you know, we're going to tax you even more this year, but don't worry about it.' That's a very hard sell in an anti-tax environment like we're faced with right now."