CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson was in the hot seat in Washington D.C. Wednesday, where he testified before a Republican-led congressional committee on Chicago's sanctuary city policies.

WASHINGTON DC — Mayor Johnson traveled to Washington this week to take questions in a Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation of sanctuary cities.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson testified before Congress on Wednesday about the city’s sanctuary policies alongside mayors from Boston, Denver, and New York. Lawmakers scrutinized the impact of ...

"Chicago's 'Welcoming City Ordinance,' and Cook County's 'Policy for Responding to ICE Detainers' under Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration raises significant concerns regarding compliance with ...

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ripped border czar Tom Homan after the Trump official threatened to prosecute him if ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson told a House committee today ... set a goal of holding the mayors “accountable” for “sanctuary city” policies they say result in increased crime and other ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson fiercely defended Chicago’s protections for undocumented immigrants, telling Republicans on the U.S. House Oversight Committee that the city’s Welcoming City ordinance ...

"Chicago is a Sanctuary City that harbors criminal illegal aliens who are terrorizing the American people. Mayor Brandon Johnson has been a major proponent and defender of Sanctuary cities," Gill ...

WASHINGTON — Mayor Brandon Johnson and Democratic leaders from ... time will give Johnson a national audience to defend the city’s sanctuary city policies that block local police from ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson promised Friday to go to court ... sued last month by the Trump administration over Chicago’s sanctuary city policy for immigrants. Other defendants named in that lawsuit ...

We’re laying the foundation ... that Mayor Harold Washington established," Johnson told listeners during an interview on radio station WVON-AM.

By opening up the door to the room, Mayor Brandon Johnson is hoping to shut the door on reproving speculation swirling for a month and a half about his gift-accepting policies.