Going to start a 2027 Chicago budget thread. Lots of numbers flying around. First: how did 2025 end up? The city ended the year with a surplus thanks to strong revenues and some underspending on programs the mayor has lauded:
Treasurer's office estimate last week was that CPS was actually still owed $70-$80M (chicagotribune.com/2026/07/15/cps…). Districts have had to do their own math because distribution reports that say which tax year money is coming from/what's left are still held up: chicagotribune.com/2026/02/09/lib…
NEW: CPS financial woes might be $250 million worse than initially thought, thanks to problems with Cook County. A CPS spokesperson says the County shorted the school district by a quarter billion of what it was owed from this year's first installment property tax disbursements.
2022: “We are in this business for the long haul... We own these stores, we’re in the city, and we’re there to stay.”
Now, YB stores shuttering, citing SNAP cuts' impact. What happens to the public $ promised to prop up the stores? @talia_soglin reports:
Went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out which museum had the largest Rothko collection. Eventually discovered someone created a Chrome plugin to display a different work from the National Gallery of Art every time you open a new tab. Recommend! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/artsyta…