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Some key Chicago City Council members are urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to slow down on his $16.7 billion budget proposal that raises a host of taxes.

From politics to pop culture, Paris Schutz and guests bring Chicago's top voices to you.

Following a viral confrontation with Gov. JB Pritzker at a Veterans Day event, Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells ChicagoLIVE he stands by his questions about taxing corporations and supporting working families. He also discusses why he’s weighing an independent run for Congress in Illinois’ 4th District.

Federal lawmakers are expected to vote on a deal to reopen the government after a prolonged shutdown. In Chicago, a judge is preparing to release hundreds detained by ICE, Little Village business owners react to the agency’s departure, and members of the business community are pushing back against Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.7 billion budget proposal that includes major tax hikes. Plus, a new inspector general report finds CPS spending on travel skyrocketed from $300,000 in 2021 to nearly $8 million. | From politics to pop culture, Paris Schutz and guests bring Chicago's top voices to you.

A new look inside the books by CPS's office of the Inspector General found repeated abuses in travel expense reports including questionable purchases even outright fraud

The DNA Doe Project has confirmed remains found in Lake Michigan belong to 71-year-old Dorothy Glanton, who vanished from Chicago in 1987. | A live look at what happened today, what’s happening now, and what’s coming tonight—no script, just real news.

Police are looking for a suspect in connection with a stabbing at a CTA station over the weekend. | FOX 32 News at 5 brings you the latest breaking stories from across the Chicagoland area.

Paris was joined by Alds. Bill Conway (34th Ward) and Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) about the debate over whether to implement a corporate head tax to close a $1 billion budget deficit.

On this episode of "The Chicago Report," host Paris Schutz dives into questions surrounding Mayor Brandon Johnson’s savings plan. The mayor spent $3.2 million on an outside firm to identify potential cuts and efficiencies, but only $80 million of those recommendations made it into his new budget — and aldermen want answers. The show also covers the end of the government shutdown showdown, continued chaos in Little Village after raids and arrests tied to Border Patrol and why Fulton Market, once booming with construction, is now seeing fewer buildings go up.

Police say two men entered the store to steal when gunfire broke out. A customer who tried to intervene was critically injured, and two bystanders were also shot. No one is in custody. | A live look at what happened today, what’s happening now, and what’s coming tonight—no script, just real news.

Ald. Anthony Quezada joins us to discuss the 35th Ward’s participatory budgeting process, where residents as young as 14 can vote on how to allocate more than $1 million in community projects.