2020 Budget: You’ll Pay More For Uber, Minimum Wage Set To Rise But Mental Health Clinics Won’t Reopen

By Heather Cherone NOV 26, 2019 Lori Lightfoot may have campaigned on ending business as usual to become Chicago’s 56th mayor, but her first budget season is set to end Tuesday in the same way city budgets have ended for decades: with a quick and decisive rubber stamp. Even without help from state lawmakers, aldermen are set to approve Lightfoot’s plan to close an $838 million budget gap by finding savings and efficiencies, while raising some taxes and fees to avoid a large property tax increase. But there are likely to be fireworks when aldermen gather at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Lightfoot brushed off calls from two of her loudest critics — ...