The Chicago City Council narrowly passed a hotly contested $830 million infrastructure bond plan Wednesday backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. Aldermen approved the plan in a 26-23 vote a day after Johnson’s administration proposed a version with clearer spending guardrails.

The City Council narrowly approved Mayor Brandon Johnson's controversial $830 million bond deal to finance neighborhood infrastructure improvements, despite complaints that a back-loaded repayment schedule would inflate the total cost to $2 billion by the time all of the debt is paid off.

Mayor Brandon Johnson will travel to Washington, D.C., next week to defend Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city. “We’re going to remain a welcoming city and hold to our values,” Johnson said. Set to testify before a Congressional Committee in the nation’s capital,