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Chicago Election 2019

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

In 232-page report, Lightfoot’s transition tees up housing initiatives, TIF reform

By Curtis Black | May 23, 2019

All of the proposals are important, but addressing the affordable housing shortfall will require that the Chicago Housing Authority return to its original mission of directly providing housing.

Chicago Election 2019

Money, money, money: 13 takeaways from Chicago’s historic election

By Matt Kiefer, La Risa Lynch, Josh McGhee and Asraa Mustufa | May 3, 2019

Dollar for dollar, Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot spent less than half as much as Toni Preckwinkle to clinch her landslide victory.

Chicago Election 2019

What do we do with all those campaign signs? Young Chicago artists have an answer

By Jacqueline Serrato | April 12, 2019

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

By Jeremy Borden | April 9, 2019

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

By Curtis Black | April 3, 2019

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

By Jacqueline Serrato | March 29, 2019

Both the Lightfoot and Preckwinkle campaigns are courting Latinx voters, who have historically voted along identity politics in recent Chicago elections.

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Will Chicago’s mayoral runoff signal the end of the ‘rainbow’ coalition?

By Valerie C. Johnson and Robert T. Starks | March 29, 2019

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

By Curtis Black | March 29, 2019

Heated rhetoric in the race between Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle obscures consensus on a broad range of policy proposals.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

Lightfoot’s long, complicated record on policing easy to distort

By Curtis Black | March 21, 2019

The mayoral candidate’s reformist persona is being challenged by hardline police accountability activists.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Ald. Pat O’Connor

An ‘appetite for independence’ in the 40th Ward

By Curtis Black | March 14, 2019

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.

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