Even as Mayor Brandon Johnson has warned of possible mid-year city worker layoffs if revenue estimates in the budget fall short, city employees and workers at the city’s sister agencies owe a mountain of outstanding debt to the city.
Records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act shows city employees and employees of the city’s sister agencies owe at least $23.5 million to the city.
More than 1 in 10 Chicago Public Schools employees owe the city money, and more than 1 of every 3 CTA workers owe such debt.
As part of a heated budget battle at the end of last year, city leaders debated how aggressively Chicago should pursue billions of dollars in unpaid tickets, fees, and utility bills owed to the city by taxpayers.
But what…