The Alternative City Budget Episode with Ald. Nicole Lee and Ald. Samantha Nugent
About this episode
The episode discusses Chicago's FY26 budget battle and the efforts to create an alternative budget.
On this episode of The Broad Cast, hosts Becky Carroll and Eileen Dordek sit down with Ald. Samantha Nugent (39th Ward) and Ald. Nicole Lee (11th Ward) to explore Chicago's historic FY26 budget battle and the behind-the-scenes effort to craft an alternative budget. The conversation covers how a broad City Council coalition came together to close a billion-plus dollar budget gap while protecting job growth and making critical pension payments without raising property taxes — plus what’s at stake the City’s heads into an even more challenging FY2027 budget cycle.
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