
Today is Election Day in Chicago’s hotly contested mayoral race
Incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers. The top two vote-getters will go to a runoff election if nobody wins more than 50%.
Incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers. The top two vote-getters will go to a runoff election if nobody wins more than 50%.
Of Chicago’s roughly 6,600 election judges working on Tuesday, 13% will be high school students.
Who won, who lost and who is likely headed to the runoff on April 4 in Chicago’s municipal elections — for mayoral, ward and police district races.
The discourse that once ran through Black Chicago for decades about unity around a Black consensus candidate has waned.
Voters along the north lakefront in Chicago’s 43rd Ward, one of the whitest wealthiest and most politically active wards in the city, have a wide field of candidates to choose from for the first time in a decade.
Lightfoot’s campaign says again that they halted the recruitment effort to CPS and City Colleges students.
About two out of every three Election Day polling places in Chicago are not yet fully accessible for people with disabilities.
Expansive paid leave legislation requiring Illinois employers to give workers paid time off based on hours worked is ready for action by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, who said he looks forward to signing it.
Illinois has paid out millions in pension payments to ex-lawmakers who have admitted criminal wrongdoing or are awaiting trial.
The CTA has gotten the most diss this mayoral election season. But making biking and walking in the city safer tops many Chicagoans to-do lists too.