Mayor Brandon Johnson’s top finance leaders urged aldermen to implement the tax soon during a Tuesday meeting of the City ...

State lawmakers last year approved ending the statewide 1 percent grocery tax in 2026. Municipalities now have the power to levy the tax on an individual basis.

Over 200 Illinois towns have opted to charge a 1% grocery tax. Chicago is likely to follow. Local leaders have until October to decide whether to impose this regressive tax on people’s need to eat.

Chicago must decide by Oct. 1 whether to continue the decades-old one percent grocery tax, which could cost the city between ...

City Budget Director Annette Guzman said the City Council "must reaffirm the grocery tax before the state’s deadline of Oct.

Chicago and its suburbs, including Evanston and Oak Park, will implement a 1% grocery tax starting June 3, 2025. This measure ...

This grocery tax elimination proposal is a pretty darned solid play ... The grocery tax elimination also whacks the City of Chicago’s budget by $60 million to $80 million, according to the ...

CHICAGO (CBS ... or to go to the grocery store. The Johnson administration started at $300 million for a proposed property tax hike—which the City Council voted down unanimously.

David Merriman, a public policy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert ... to residents from his proposal to eliminate the grocery tax. “It’s one more regressive ...

It's not the first time the grocery tax has been targeted. Pritzker proposed and lawmakers eventually approved a one-year grocery tax holiday in the fiscal year 2023 budget that was part of a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Illinois House lawmakers ... The elimination of the 1% grocery tax may make a trip to the store more affordable, but it could also leave some local governments with a major ...