Chicago Election 2019
Money, money, money: 13 takeaways from Chicago’s historic election
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Dollar for dollar, Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot spent less than half as much as Toni Preckwinkle to clinch her landslide victory.
Perspectives
The case for African American reparations, explained
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Thanks to demographic and political changes, Democratic contenders are addressing this issue for the first time.
Chicago Election 2019
What do we do with all those campaign signs? Young Chicago artists have an answer
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The city normally removes campaign signs from public property, but otherwise they become eye sores that residents have to clean up themselves.
Chicago Election 2019
A changing political ‘machine’ bares itself in Englewood rematch
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The little-followed 16th Ward race highlights the shifting influence of ward committeemen, a position long known to drive patronage and corruption in Chicago politics.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
A new Chicago Way? Lightfoot and progressives poised to change the city’s direction
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The watershed mayoral election ushers in a new political landscape, setting the stage for a crop of young activists joining the City Council.
Chicago Election 2019
Latinx voters could determine the next mayor of Chicago, if they show up
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Both the Lightfoot and Preckwinkle campaigns are courting Latinx voters, who have historically voted along identity politics in recent Chicago elections.
Perspectives
Will Chicago’s mayoral runoff signal the end of the ‘rainbow’ coalition?
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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.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
A perplexed progressive’s guide to Chicago’s mayoral election
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Heated rhetoric in the race between Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle obscures consensus on a broad range of policy proposals.
Criminal Justice
Report: Illinois’ Countering Violent Extremism programs struggle to gain community partners
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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.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
An ‘appetite for independence’ in the 40th Ward
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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.