Heinous double-murderer spared death sentence by Biden now wants to be freed, arguing ‘compassionate release’
Brandon Council was sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees and mothers during a bloody ...
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A Tale of Two City Budgets: Chicago City Council and budget proposals from Mayors Emanuel and Johnson
Mayor Brandon Johnson was finally able to pass his 2024 budget through the Chicago City Council, but not with his proposed property tax increases.  The council flatly rejected Johnson’s ...
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Pritzker, Johnson on opposite sides of hemp bill in Springfield
The debate over regulation of products known as Delta-8 is the latest situation in which the governor and mayor have found ...
What Baltimore’s reelected mayor and new City Council president want to do in 2025
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen are optimistic about continuing the city’s revival in ...
Jason Lee, Chicago's shadow mayor, helps Brandon Johnson weather the political storm
Lee says he’s not at all surprised by the extraordinary pressure that he and the mayor have been under in the shark tank ...
Former federal prosecutor in death row case speaks on Biden commuting murderer's sentence: 'My heart aches'
Former federal prosecutor Derek Shoemake, who worked a death row case, speaks out on the difficulty of seeing President Biden ...
Convicted Conway bank killer asks for compassionate release days after death sentence commutation
After having his death sentence commuted to life by President Joe Biden, Brandon Council is now asking for a compassionate ...
Editorial: We have some New Year’s resolutions for JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson and crew. And a few for ourselves.
With 2024 in the books and 2025 already here, gulp, our city and state find themselves in precarious places. The city of ...
Murdered woman’s family slams Biden for commuting killer’s death sentence: ‘Shown no mercy’
The family of a South Carolina bank teller gunned down during a 2017 robbery is livid after President Biden commuted her ...
Convicted South Carolina bank killer asks for 'compassionate release' days after Biden commuted death sentence
A convicted killer who ruthlessly gunned down two South Carolina bank employees in 2017 has demanded to be released from prison days after President Biden saved him from death row.
2024 in review: A look back at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s year through Tribune editorials
No name appeared more frequently in Tribune editorials in 2024 than that of Mayor Brandon Johnson. So much so, in fact, that ...
City Council finally passes Johnson's $17.3B budget — with no property tax hike
A City Council rebellion not seen in decades ultimately forced Mayor Brandon Johnson to honor his campaign promise to hold the line on property taxes. The protracted budget battle damaged the ...