Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/key-issue/government-and-politics/page/2/)
With a black mayor at the helm once again, it remains to be seen whether a Harold Washington-style African-American and Latino coalition can emerge to fight for socioeconomic and political parity with whites in Chicago.
Heated rhetoric in the race between Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle obscures consensus on a broad range of policy proposals.
Advocates have long criticized CVE as a ‘softer’ approach to unwarranted surveillance that enlists community members to track harmless, constitutionally protected behavior and activities as precursors to violence.
Longtime Ald. Patrick O’Connor, forced into a runoff for the first time, faces progressive challenger Andre Vasquez – and his record as a mayoral loyalist may not help him.
Frontrunners in the mayoral and aldermanic races ran campaigns against Rahm Emanuel’s record but will need to be pushed to clarify their progressive policy agendas for the runoff.
One 25th Ward precinct is the only polling place in the city that provides dual language paper ballots in Spanish, Hindi, and Chinese.
Candidates for the South Side ward agree on community needs, but will the next alderman stick around long enough to see them through? History says no.
Emma Mitts is facing challengers who are seeing support in the West Side ward, slated to become the site of a controversial new police academy.
Rahm and J.B. are the leading donors; unions play an outsized role; your cable bill may be paying to support your alderman; and more.
A federal judge ruled that Protect Our Parks’ lawsuit against the use of Jackson Park for the center should not be tossed, as the city requested.