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Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday proposed a $16.6 billion budget for next year that reinstates Chicago’s corporate head tax while scaling back an extra pension payment, kicking off what could be the freshman executive’s most grueling budget process yet.The recommendation is a mishmash of fix...