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.

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

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

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

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his aides argued in favor of a grocery tax during a city committee meeting to replace a ...

A 1% local grocery tax will be discussed by the Naperville council Tuesday. The expiration date for the state grocery tax is ...

About 200 municipalities have plans to reimpose Illinois’ grocery tax locally, and the state’s largest city may be among ...

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

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Governor JB Pritzker's plan to permanently eliminate the ... Wheaton's mayor estimates if the grocery tax is eliminated, they would lose more than $2 million a year.

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.