CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson should consider raising garbage and rideshare fees, hiking the liquor tax, extending a hiring freeze and tying property tax increases to inflation to help close a more than $1 billion budget gap in 2026, according to a coalition of civic and business leaders.

Those ideas are just a few of almost 90 recommendations included in a report issued Tuesday by the Chicago Financial Future Task Force, a group convened by Johnson’s administration to help fix Chicago’s budget woes next year and beyond.

The group’s recommendations include 45 “cost-saving” measures and 39 “revenue measures,” some of which would require approval by the Illinois General Assembly and could not be implemented by the mayor and City Council alone.

The full report is here.

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