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%.
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Teens step in to make sure Chicagoans can vote today
Of Chicago’s roughly 6,600 election judges working on Tuesday, 13% will be high school students.
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Live Election Results
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.
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Does Chicago need a Black consensus candidate?
The discourse that once ran through Black Chicago for decades about unity around a Black consensus candidate has waned.
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How crime is dominating this one North Lakefront ward race
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.
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Lightfoot’s campaign sent 9,900 emails seeking support from CPS and City Colleges staff, documents show
Lightfoot’s campaign says again that they halted the recruitment effort to CPS and City Colleges students.
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Many Chicagoans with disabilities will likely face obstacles when voting on Election Day
About two out of every three Election Day polling places in Chicago are not yet fully accessible for people with disabilities.
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Illinois poised to mandate paid leave for nearly all workers
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.
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How admittedly corrupt ex-Illinois lawmakers get to keep their pensions
Illinois has paid out millions in pension payments to ex-lawmakers who have admitted criminal wrongdoing or are awaiting trial.
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Chicago’s mayoral candidates want to fix the unreliable, unsafe and downright filthy CTA
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.
