Chicago Tribune Article Rating

Mayor Brandon Johnson's difficult 2025 budget fight portends even harder financial situation for 2026

  • Bias Rating

    16% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    8% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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-20% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Look, I know it's easy to go back and forth about this tax versus this tax, but people have sold the people of Chicago out for too long, and they have kowtowed to the interests of the ultrarich.
51% : That includes $132 million in surplus from tax increment financing districts and about $140 million in surplus money from past years.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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