So the newly elected mayor, the socialist liberal douchebag of Chicago, selected by the liberal power elite to be mayor, Brandon Johnson, decided to screw the citizens of Chicago

Faced with a nearly 1 BILLION dollar deficit, he made his choice:

Abandoning his campaign promise to NOT raise property taxes, he is proposing a tax hike of 4%. He chose not to trim any budget of any Chicago city services department. Zero cuts there. No one who works for the city (and is, therefore, part of a union) will get laid off or fired. No departments are getting cut, not even a hiring freeze. 

Gotta take care of the Unions.  After all, they and the other socialists are what got him elected.