His voice breaking with emotion, Mayor Brandon Johnson tried again Tuesday to salvage a corporate head tax proposal shot down by the City Council’s Finance Committee and roundly condemned by business leaders.

Johnson began his weekly City Hall news conference with defiance, but ended it emotionally as he talked about his father now fighting Alzheimer’s who taught him the work ethic and drive to protect everyday people, something that has guided the mayor through this second straight budget stalemate.

“There are lines of Chicagoans, right now, of people who do not have food… And if you’ve never gone hungry, you wouldn’t know why I have that urgency — if you’ve never opened up your refrigerator and there’s nothing in it. Poverty sucks,” the mayor said, choking back tears.

Johnson accused

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