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‘The Hollywood of politics’: Chicago in spotlight as Democrats roll into town

Thousands of delegates will descend upon a city struggling to reinvent its politics after decades of control by the Democratic machine

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Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy challenged in Illinois for 2024 elections

Five people working with a voting rights organization filed an objection, making Illinois the 18th state challenging Donald Trump over his ties to the 2021 insurrection.

Chicago Sun-Times

The teachers who started a museum

Carlos Tortolero and five other staffers from Bowen High School were disgusted with how Mexican culture was taught at CPS. So they did something about it.

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Migrant crisis won’t be solved by repealing Welcoming City ordinance

The 2012 ordinance is about keeping local law enforcement from becoming federal immigration agents. Repealing it won’t put a penny in city coffers or stop the flow of buses bearing migrants from the southern border.

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Alderperson’s manhandling allegation caps ‘s- - - show’ City Council meeting

Ald. Ray Lopez is calling for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s floor leader to resign after an alleged “manhandling” of one of their colleagues, putting an ugly exclamation mark on a raucous council meeting.

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Marilyn Katz, a behind-the-scenes force in Chicago politics for decades, dead at 78

She marched with MLK and helped elect Mayor Harold Washington, and her views were forged as an activist with Students for a Democratic Society during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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‘Power and control’ frame Edward Burke’s legacy. A federal jury will soon decide that legacy’s coda.

He entered politics as one of the youngest Chicago City Council members in history and became its most powerful and longest-serving member. Now, he’s fighting to avoid prison.

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Chicago needs a realistic ‘Welcoming City’ ordinance

The city should maintain its policy of non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities, Ald. Anthony Beale writes, but needs federal help to afford the rising cost of resettling asylum seekers.

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Teach the real legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers to inspire our youth

Let’s create a curriculum on Fred Hampton’s life. In contrast to the myth of the “gun-toting” Black Panthers, they laid the groundwork for many of the social service programs we know today, such as school breakfasts, day care and sickle cell testing.

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Ald. Beale takes a page from Texas Gov. Abbott’s playbook on migrant emergency

Ald. Anthony Beale wants voters to consider undoing the city’s Welcoming City ordinance, a move that panders to Gov. Greg Abbott and the anti-immigrant crowd.

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Should Chicago stay a sanctuary city?

Alderman says residents should vote on whether or not to welcome migrants.

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Brass from the past: Top Chicago cops? I’ve known a few

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s appointment of Larry Snelling as Chicago Police superintendent prompted a peek into this reporter’s aging notepad, a flashback to 14 or so former Chicago top cops I’ve known or covered since 1967.

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Chicago native Minyon Moore to chair 2024 Democratic Convention in Chicago

Minyon Moore got her start in politics in Chicago. She worked in Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, in the Clinton White House and helped usher Ketanji Brown Jackson through her Supreme Court confirmation.

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Alice Palmer, state senator who mentored Barack Obama, dies at 83

Mrs. Palmer was an activist who organized Chicago’s Anti-Apartheid movement and held the first fundraiser for Harold Washington’s first campaign for mayor.

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75 years, 10 mayors: How Sun-Times coverage of City Hall evolved

The newspaper has praised and scourged the city’s chief executives for three-quarters of a century.

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After 50 years, dean of Chicago television’s political reporters calling it a career

On June 30, Mike Flannery, political editor of Fox 32-Chicago, will retire after 50 years on the beat. He sat down with the Sun-Times, where he got his start, to reminisce about his storied career and the “blind spots” of the Chicago mayors he has covered.

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Johnson’s biggest challenge in delivering inaugural address: avoid Lightfoot’s mistake

Lightfoot denounced the City Council as corrupt, then turned around and shamed all 50 members, who were seated behind her, into joining the cheering crowd in a standing ovation for reform,

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Century of progress? Modern Chicago City Council marks 100th anniversary bullish for future, sheepish about past

Reformers were aiming to root out corruption with the advent of the 50-ward system in 1923, but illegal backroom deals have remained all too common for a legislative body that has otherwise seen massive change.

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Activists call for public health funding, community programs in new ordinance

Lonette Sims, chair of People’s Response Network, announced Thursday that the group had drafted an ordinance calling for greater funding for community-based public health programs.

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Brandon Johnson gets advice at his final County Board meeting

With a nod to the mayor-elect’s “unfunny” jokes and love of snacks, Cook County Board members feted Johnson before his swearing in next month.

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Black establishment leaders who backed Paul Vallas’ losing campaign against Brandon Johnson big losers in mayor’s election

In an election that was a showdown between old-school politicians and new-thought leaders, many prominent Black political figures lined up behind Vallas.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson found a place in his acceptance speech for God. But not Barack Obama

In its election Tuesday of Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson as its 57th mayor, Chicago chose an inspiring orator. This will be a City Hall first for most Chicagoans.

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Next mayor has his work cut out for him

Being the Defund-the-Police guy is actually liberating.

Chicago Tribune

Brandon Johnson or Paul Vallas for Chicago mayor? Voters have their say as city waits to learn who won

CHICAGO — After a lengthy and highly charged election season, Chicago voters have gone to the polls to choose between Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas for mayor.

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Moving hazardous chemicals by train is far safer than trucks, says top regulator who pushed merger and wants more freight moved by rail

Not even the toxic fireball over an Ohio derailment could shake Martin Oberman’s belief that railroads are a safer way to move hazardous chemicals, and most other freight, than long-haul trucks.

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