Rafael Yáñez, a hate crime investigator with the Chicago Police Department, joins six other new board members Johnson appointed to replace the former board.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has picked a former candidate for alderman to join his newly appointed board amid CPS leadership clash.

As the city deals with a major budget gap, finance committee chair Ald. Pat Dowell said the plan will save taxpayers more than $100 million.

L ast year, when he was campaigning to be mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, a former organiser for the Chicago Teachers Union, was asked how he would handle negotiating a contract with his former employers,

All new Chicago school board members are expected to be sworn in at an agenda review meeting Thursday morning, including Mayor Brandon Johnson’s seventh board appointee, Rafael Yañez, a hate crimes officer in the Chicago Police Department.

When Mayor Brandon Johnson honored the Rev. Jesse Jackson with a key to the city earlier this month, he made a point to remind the audience of his own battle inside City Hall. “So now, with the power that the people of Chicago gave me — OK,