Editorial: While Mayor Brandon Johnson postures, aldermanic realists are quietly cooking up an alternative budget – Chicago Tribune*

"We hear they’re huddling with representatives of the business community, leading civic organizations like the Civic Federation and the Commercial Club, and, yes, even people from unions representing city workers. ... From what we are given to understand, the head tax will not be part of the (Ald. Pat) Dowell plan. Not at any level. But we are likely to see some of those 'efficiencies' the mayor and his supporters on the council keep deriding as impractical or impossible."