Mayor Johnson's job approval up slightly, but his tax choices are unpopular, poll shows

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s job approval rating has inched up to 31%, but Chicagoans are less enthusiastic about his $600 million tax plan to “challenge the ultra-rich and corporations to pay their fair share,” a new poll shows.

The slight improvement in Johnson’s job approval rating follows months of mayoral attacks on budget cuts imposed or threatened by President Donald Trump, and after Johnson’s opposition to weeks of immigration raids that have beseiged Chicago neighborhoods.

The poll of 812 registered Chicago voters was conducted Oct. 17-23 by the Democratic polling firm Change Research for One Future Illinois. That’s the political action committee created by business and civic leaders last year to promote candidates in Chicago’s first school board elections and organize around other k