The prospects for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax proposal reached a new nadir Monday as fed-up aldermen tried to block his wish to buy more time before holding a key vote on the measure.

Johnson’s handpicked Finance Committee chair, Ald. Pat Dowell, moved to recess a meeting instead of considering the revenue ordinance for the mayor’s $16.6 billion budget, a sign that the mayor expected to lose. Last week, Dowell said a Monday vote would be “premature,” but she would allow it if the mayor nonetheless wanted to proceed.

But mayoral foes Alds. Raymond Lopez and Anthony Beale tabled her recess motion on a 24-7 roll call. It was not immediately clear if they would succeed in moving ahead with an up-or-down vote on Johnson’s revenue package in a bid to defeat it outright, but

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