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Prognosis: Unlikely
Friday, Oct 9, 2026 - Posted by Rich Miller * Veto session is next month. This legislation requires either months and years of laying groundwork or a massive last-minute strong-arm by legislative leadership. Either way, council members prolly shouldn’t get their hopes up, hence my reply…
Discuss.
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- LBR - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:35 am:
Thanks for the giving my morning laugh!
- DS - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:38 am:
February is so close.
- Mjolnir - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:41 am:
Delusional.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:42 am:
I mean, it would have to be a progressive City income tax too, right? For our shared values? Can you do that in a veto session? /s
- Oklahoma - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:49 am:
And that tweet is probably the extent of their Springfield lobbying efforts.
- DEE - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:51 am:
I was behind them in line at Bud & Rita’s on Madison downtown, but did not see the ID of their purchase.
- Socially DIstant Watcher - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:57 am:
There’s a lot of sad about this, but Oklahoma has identified the saddest part
- JS Mill - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 8:59 am:
This is what happens when people who are used to criticizing but not managing and definitely not accountable, jump to a position of authority. These guys have no clue. None.
Rahm might have been a tool but he was at least competent and understood how to get things done.
- RNUG - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 9:10 am:
Still counting on those magic beans to balance the city budget …
- Casper the Ghost Bus - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 9:21 am:
The city wants MORE of the state’s income tax dollars AND the ability to double up with its own city income tax.
Call me when the shuttle lands.
- Citizen Activist - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 9:50 am:
Tell me you’re a rank amateur at lobbying in Springfield without telling me that…
- Northsider - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 9:53 am:
A city income tax, eh?
If he hadn’t already done so, with that idea Brandon Johnson has officially signed his own political death warrant.
- It's always Sunny in Illinois - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 9:58 am:
There are three certainties in life…..death….taxes…..and with Teachers Unions at the helm there will never be enough money for “education”…..
- Rudy’s teeth - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 10:01 am:
Another failed agenda from the folks on the Fifth floor. The magic beans just aren’t there and they can’t conjure up a solution to their plight.
Good question…what are they smoking?
- Boone Logan Square - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 10:27 am:
One can smoke PCP, which would explain the wish list.
- Boone Logan Square - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 10:29 am:
The placement of this post directly above the first story in Isabel’s morning briefing is top-ranked editing, Rich.
- TNR - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 10:39 am:
Question is, are they really so naïve and stupid to think they can get this done, or is it just a strategy to scapegoat the Gov and legislature for “protecting billionaires” when it doesn’t happen?
- Charles Edward Cheese - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 11:15 am:
@TNR
Por qué no los dos? This admin has consistently shown they operate on a ”have your cake and eat it too and then yell at the bakery” basis.
- Annon'in - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 11:21 am:
And this does not seem to mention the $150 million pipe dream for CPS. Good luck
- Tough Decisions - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 11:49 am:
Just wait til the paid influencers start claiming, “Chicago doesn’t have a mayor problem, it has a Springfield problem”
- Shytown - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 12:07 pm:
Rich is about the only voice in the media calling this crap out loud. This administration and mayor are not serious people but they are chaos agents and we’ve got to ride this out for another six months til there is change god willing.
- 46th Ward Moderate - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 12:14 pm:
February 2027 can’t come soon enough:). Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we be free at last from this…
- Leslie K - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 12:23 pm:
==that tweet is probably the extent of their Springfield lobbying efforts==
Yup. But, on the plus side, they finally realized they need a Springfield agenda of some sort? (We’ll work on one that isn’t a delusional bad idea at a later date…)
- James of Little Italy - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 1:31 pm:
I lived in Michigan and paid Detroit resident income tax. It was regressive and stupid. This will never happen in Chicago and everyone knows that.
What I am not hearing here is any proposals for progressive taxation that could fix the Chicago’s budget issues.
Is the only alternative Quinn / Mendoza style recissions and mass firings? Eventually, this will lead to another Emanuel / Rauner type administration. Oh joy, won’t that be great.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 1:48 pm:
===Is the only alternative Quinn / Mendoza style recissions and mass firings?===
Nope, but statewide, municipalities are not generally fiscally imperiled.
- Dirty Red - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 1:54 pm:
Stop! Stop! It’s already dead!
- low level - Friday, Oct 9, 26 @ 2:01 pm:
==Is the only alternative Quinn / Mendoza style recissions and mass firings?==
Sorry I don’t follow. Can you explain further? Thank you.