Back-and-forth budget talks between Mayor Brandon Johnson's office and his opponents on the City Council continued Wednesday afternoon at Chicago City Hall with no resolution in sight.

Aldermen opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget are dropping a plan to raise Chicago’s garbage pick-up fee from their own 2026 spending proposal.

Mayor Brandon Johnson castigated the 26 aldermen, and said if they are so confident in their counterproposal to his $16.6 ...