The fight to represent Chicago’s 5th district in Congress mimics other contests happening at the local and national level. It entails a young, liberal newcomer running against a more moderate incumbent,...
According to the Federal Election Commision, 91% of the time the better funded campaign wins their election for public office. It is this reality that makes political campaigns dependent upon donations...
A prosecutor who came under harsh criticism when her office suddenly dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett and is now the subject of a court-ordered investigation announced Tuesday she is running...
Ella Lee, Print Managing Editor
/ October 21, 2019
The last two months have been the longest year of Bill Conway’s life, he said.
An adjunct professor of finance at DePaul’s business school, Conway announced his run for Cook County State’s Attorney...
One of the most powerful City Council members in Chicago history faces new federal charges that include racketeering.
Among the charges in the superseding indictment handed down Thursday is that Edward...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has begun implementing reform to Chicago's City Hall.
During her first time chairing a City Council meeting, Lightfoot got aldermen to go along with her picks to chair council committees...
When she took the stage on Monday, May 20, Lori Lightfoot made history.
Lightfoot was inaugurated as the 56th mayor of Chicago, but she is the first black woman and the first openly gay person to...
Lori Lightfoot told aldermen and other city powerbrokers assembled at her inauguration Monday as Chicago's first black woman mayor that she meant what she said on the campaign trail about top-to-bottom...
Rahm Emanuel walked out of his City Hall for the final time as mayor of Chicago on Friday. The paintings depicting an industrial Chicago that hung on the walls of his fifth-floor office were gone. The...
Lori Lightfoot will be the first African American woman to be the mayor of the city of Chicago, defeating political heavyweight Toni Preckwinkle in a historic landslide election.
Lightfoot won the election...
