Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies fended off a challenge Wednesday over the fate of a controversial megadevelopment project near the stalled Lincoln Yards site.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's revised 2025 budget plan narrowly cleared its first hurdle Tuesday morning, as two key committees backed the mayor's $17.3 billion spending plan, and a $234 million package of increased taxes,

The Finance Committee’s 14-12 vote and Budget Committee's 17-to-16 vote set the stage for the marathon budget stalemate to end Friday, averting what might have been Chicago's first budget shutdown.