Tag: Brandon
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Mayor Brandon Johnson losing his savvy chief of staff after less than a year in office
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When Mayor Brandon Johnson chose City Hall lifer Rich Guidice to serve as his chief of staff, it sent a reassuring message to the business community and everybody else fearful of the most progressive mayor in Chicago history. A savvy and seasoned veteran who knows city government like the back of his hand would be…
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Recording Engineer-Turned-Real Estate Agent Brandon Mason Pumps Up the Volume at Elliman
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There are only a handful of people in this world who can say they spent four weeks on a mountaintop with David Bowie. Brandon Mason is one of them. Long before he became a top-producing residential real estate agent in New York City, Mason built a booming career as a recording engineer on projects with…
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Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago enter new year at a crossroads
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On Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first full day in office, he visited ground zero of the crisis that would come to define his next seven months. Striding into the 12th District Chicago police station on the Near West Side in May, the new chief executive clasped his hands before his waist as he surveyed a lobby…
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson eyes fixes to pension woes
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has created a task force to look for solutions to Chicago’s underfunded pensions, asking the group to address one of the city’s deepest and most intractable financial problems. Johnson announced the working group’s formation late Friday but did not specify who would serve it except that it would include “state legislators,…
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Brandon Johnson’s win as mayor furthers Democratic leftward tilt as party examines big tent philosophy – Chicago Tribune
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Brandon Johnson’s election as Chicago’s next mayor represented a further leftward movement of the state’s Democratic-led politics, fueled by generational and ideological changes that are stretching and sometimes straining the fabric of the party’s big tent. “In my view, the state of Illinois, led by Gov. (J.B.) Pritzker and this legislative body, has become the…
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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s campaign promise to help steer youth from crime – Chicago Tribune
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In the past week, police, state and local leaders have grappled with the decadeslong question of how to control large youth gatherings downtown in wake of the violent crowd that swarmed near Millennium Park last weekend, and the spotlight for immediate answers could not have shone more brightly on Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson. In response, Johnson,…
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How Black labor leaders propelled Brandon Johnson to the Chicago mayor’s office – Chicago Tribune
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One warm evening last July, SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer got a call out of the blue from Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who wanted to meet. The two had interacted during labor actions, including the longest strike in Local 73′s history the year before. But they weren’t close, so the call took her…
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Brandon Johnson, Progressive Union Organizer, Elected Mayor Of Chicago
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Overcoming a major fundraising gap, accusations that he would “defund” the police and public polling that predicted his defeat, progressive Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union, won a hotly contested race for mayor of Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city. Johnson, who is a Black leftist and former schoolteacher,…
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Brandon Johnson: From church youth group leader to runoff candidate for mayor
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Along with his political aspirations and his progressive beliefs, Brandon Johnson’s faith seems to permeate most facets of his life. His faith led him to his wife. It helped shape his upbringing. And it permeates the message he shares in auditoriums and debate stages as he vies to become the next Chicago mayor — at…