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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tina Sfondeles

Meet and sweet? Johnson and Pritzker sound like they like one another — more than talking taxes

Gov. J.B Pritzker (left) greets Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson outside Pritzker’s office on Friday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker emerged from their first face-to-face meeting since the election on Friday with warm words for one another and what each brings to his job.

But the two did not talk about one of Johnson’s key proposals, his $800 million tax plan to benefit public safety, which includes at least one idea the governor has vocally opposed.

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