Staring down the barrel of a $1.12 billion shortfall, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration on Thursday distributed a list of more than two dozen revenue generating ideas to take the temperature of City Council members who refused to raise property taxes a year ago.

The itemized list includes 26 ideas — along with high- and low-end revenue estimates. Eighteen of the ideas originated with members of the City Council. Seven came from civic organizations. One simply states “external stakeholder.”

The biggest potential money makers are an increase in property taxes with a high-end estimate of $396 million, and an increase in the $9-a-month garbage collection fee with a potential yield of $296.9 million.

The perennial idea of extending the state sales tax to professional services has a pote

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