Mayor Brandon Johnson’s bid to revive Chicago’s corporate head tax is dead. The resounding 25-10 City Council Finance Committee vote Monday against the mayor’s revenue proposals should have made that clear.

Unfortunately, after the embarrassing rebuke, which carried distinct echoes of last year’s unanimous council vote against Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax hike, the mayor seemed to struggle to wrap his head around the obvious reality, sounding like the Monty Python character shouting “not dead yet.”

“The corporate tax is in the budget,” a clearly frustrated Johnson told reporters after the vote. “It will stay in this budget.”

For those who’ve forgotten long-ago psychology classes, the famous Kubler-Ross stages of grief went like this: first denial, then anger and after th

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