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The 1983 Central Area Plan didn’t want to remake the central area, but instead sought sensible improvements. There is some merit in that approach today, as the city figures out a new chapter for downtown.

Mayoral challenger Roderick Sawyer demanded Mayor Lori Lightfoot apologize for comments about his late father, Mayor Eugene Sawyer, at a petition-signing event on the South Side.

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CHICAGO — On a recent Sunday afternoon, 31-year old Kina Collins strode up the front steps of tidy bungalows in the Galewood neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side to introduce herself to voters in the hopes they will make her their next representative in Congress.

Nearly two-dozen candidates are running in the First Congressional District, which stretches from Chicago’s South Side nearly to Kankakee. “It really is important that you have somebody that speaks truth to power,” said political consultant Delmarie Cobb, who ran Rush’s first campaign in the…

Ald. Roderick Sawyer’s father, Eugene Sawyer, was mayor in the late 1980s. Roderick Sawyer chairs the City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations and is a former chair of the council’s Black Caucus. He’s the fifth candidate seeking to deny Mayor Lori Lightfoot a second term.

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More than 50 people gathered at Harold Washington College on Wednesday morning to remember the city’s first Black mayor, who would have turned 100 this month.

CHICAGO — University of Illinois Chicago professor Dick Simpson has lived a life in Chicago’s political and academic spheres for more than 50 years: 44th Ward alderman from 1971-1979; executive board member of the Illinois Political Science Association, a former congressional candidate, political consultant, author and has served on transition…