Mayoral allies urge Lightfoot to scrap plans for $42.7 million property tax increase

Several members of the Chicago City Council are urging Mayor Lori Lightfoot to avoid any property tax increases in her next budget proposal. (Sun-Times file)

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is being urged to scrap plans for a $42.7 million pre-election property tax increase — half of what an automatic escalator would have allowed — to avoid risking an embarrassing defeat and she’s listening, her City Council allies said Wednesday. 

Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), chairman of the Council’s Black Caucus, and License Committee Chair Emma Mitts (37th), are just a few of the mayoral allies who have advised the mayor to find another way.