In the second-floor hall crowded with Chicago residents impatiently waiting to enter the chambers for the City Council meeting, a woman in a gray suit…
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Dueling groups took to the Cook County Office Building in downtown Chicago Monday to protest State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case after…
Chicagoans cast their votes Tuesday in a historic election that resulted in attorney Lori Lightfoot becoming the city’s first black woman mayor. Chicago has not had…
Chicago’s neighborhood of Bronzeville, a hub of African American culture, was the childhood home of Harold Washington, the city’s first black mayor. Today, voters in…
Two candidates in the 20th Ward have made their way to the runoff election with historical comparisons to the mayor’s race. Not only did the…
First-time candidates are working in waves in 10 wards to unseat long-time City Council members who have fulfilled Chicago’s reputation of standing by “old school”…
On the 600 block of South Dearborn in downtown Chicago, Dennis Houndsmen, a 51-year-old self-employed entrepreneur, walked out of a polling place on Printer’s Row…
The residents of Logan Square have a wide variety of representation in the city council. The neighborhood is associated with five Wards in total: the…