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

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

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

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

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

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Gov. JB Pritzker previously ended a state administered 1% grocery tax that was passed on to local governments, impacting ...

voters rejected any proposed tax hike by 91%. That display of sentiment hasn’t stopped more than 160 Illinois towns from moving to restore the grocery tax at the local level. Mayors, village ...

The delivery tax replaces previous revenue streams loathed by the suburbs and labor, but faces resistance of its own.

Homewood residents might not see relief when the State does away with its grocery sales tax, as Homewood officials now mull ...

A significant overhaul of public transit in the Chicago area to address a looming fiscal cliff stalled in the House over the weekend.