A new report commissioned by Mayor Brandon Johnson lays out a vast array of options with potential to save the city as much as $455.5 million and generate as much as $1.65 million in new revenue.

Johnson gave the group chaired by influential businessman Jim Reynolds and Chicago Urban League President Karen Freeman-Wilson carte blanche to create a road map to erase Chicago’s $1.15 billion budget shortfall, and the 24-member group of civic leaders apparently took their marching orders seriously.

Chicago mayors have commissioned and received similar reports over the years — from the Civic Federation, the Chicago Federation of Labor, inspectors general and the City Council Office of Financial Analysis. Many of those reports have sat on shelves and gathered dust. Unsolicited and politically u

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