>> Critics of the mayor's budget proposal are moving forward with their own plan.

Their proposal looks to bridge Chicago's billion dollar budget gap without hiking taxes on large firms.

But Mayor Brandon Johnson today remain defiant.

Support a budget.

>> That polices such an incredible Burton on working people at a time in which President Trump.

Hes made life.

Quite difficult for working people across this country.

The city of Chicago should not be adding to that burden.

And so no, I cannot support a budget that nearly doubles the garbage fee for working people.

>> Our Heather Sharon joins us now from City Hall with the latest.

As older people have just 20 days left to pass a budget.

Heather, mayor and his critics make any progress toward the budget deal today.

>> No 27 people.

Older people signed on to a proposal that strikes at the heart of the mayor's budget proposal which would impose a $33 per month per employee tax on firms with at least 500 employees.

They say that proposal will stifle growth, but the mayor says he will not approve a budget that he says fills the city's 1.2 billion dollar budget gap by taxing working people leaving the debate deadlocked.

>> Heather, the rival budget plan which the mayor said would jeopardize the city's financial position has been revised.

What a big change.

>> Well, it is a complicated plan that strives to not only eliminate the head tax but pay nearly 140 million dollars more towards the city pension and eliminate the need to borrow 166 million dollars to pay back pay to firefighters who worked without a contract for 4 years.

Part of the way this plan envisions doing that is to count on new revenue from slots installed at O'Hare and Midway airports.

In fact, it counts nearly 50 million dollars from those machines.

However, that would be more revenue than the city is counting on from both the temporary casino open now at the Medinah Temple and the Permanent casino, which is scheduled to open in 2026, the mayor says its projections like that that make this alternative plant completely unrealistic and not worth truly considering.

Then, Heather, what's next?

as you said, the city has just 20 days to figure this out.

So the city council agreed today to meet Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and December 23rd in the hopes of scheduling a meeting where a plan could come to a vote and perhaps win a majority of votes.

How exactly that is going to happen.

It is very unclear at this moment.

Okay.

So in other news at City Hall, the debate over the city's curfew heated back up with a new proposal.

>> From Alderman Brian Hopkins, how would this one work?

Heather?

>> Well, this would give Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling the power to declare essentially a preemptive curfew 12 hours in advance of a planned large gathering.

It was that kind of gathering that drew hundreds of teens down to downtown on November.

21st, a 14 year-old boy and 8 other teens were injured in shootings at that gathering.

Aldermen Hopkins says it's clear that the city needs to do more to sort deter these gatherings from taking place.

However, the Mayo vetoed the last attempt to expand the police department's curfew powers.

And he has expressed deep skepticism that a proposal like this one would have any impact on these gatherings.

>> And Heather, really quick before we let you go, the city council did not vote on a measure that would have banned the sale of intoxicating him even as changes are in the works.

What's the latest?

>> Well, the river by a revised proposal is circulating among older people.

It would allow hemp infused drinks to continue to be sold at bars and restaurants that have liquor licenses, sponsors of the that might be enough to win a majority of supporters on the city council.

The mayor remains opposed to this proposal and he has not ruled out vetoing it.

If it does pass the City Council.

>> Okay.

We'll see what happens ahead.

A show in a city hall for us.

Thank you.