Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has begun his first term leading the nation's third-largest city
, asking Chicagoans to set aside deep differences, confront challenges together and build"a city that works for everyone.", must immediately confront an influx of migrants in desperate need of shelter, pressure to build support among skeptical business leaders, and summer months that historically bring a spike in violent crime.
There is little doubt that public safety will remain the city’s top concern and Johnson’s response will shape his relationship with business leaders, elected officials, his progressive activist base and residents of every Chicago neighborhood. “Knowing the despair that our city sometimes faces, it will take a while to take that cloud away,” Butler said. “I wouldn’t put anyone up to that job in one term.”
Andrea Sáenz, president and CEO of the Chicago Community Trust foundation, said she's hopeful that Johnson can bring philanthropies, businesses, police and activists together to create a wide-ranging strategy to prevent violence now and chip away at the conditions that let it flourish. Paying for his campaign promises, including the public safety response, hinges on a number of tax increases aimed at high earners and large companies likely to put up a political fight. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the state's most influential Democrat, declined to back Johnson's proposal to tax financial transactions, which would require sign-off from state lawmakers.
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