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Hedging their bets. Candidates running for multiple offices are receiving lots of criticism this cycle, with two prime-time candidates — Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley — running for reelection to their current offices while also running to become the next mayor of Chicago.

Second chances and influencers. A former CPS CEO is coming to the defense of a leading Board of Education president candidate who is receiving negative attention for her 2018 firing from CPS, and the Chicago Teachers Union acknowledges that it’s paying social media influencers to spread the gospel according to CTU.

Clancy copycat? In truly horrific news, a Frankfort mom is accused of killing her 2-year-old son after allegedly following the trial of Lindsay Clancy with great interest.

  1. “Alexi, Mike and Maria want to run for mayor, but none of them are willing to give up (running for) their current job to do it.” — Chicago mayoral candidate and attorney William Quinlan referring to a lawsuit against Alexi Giannoulias, Mike Quigley and Maria Pappas seeking to stop candidates from running for multiple offices simultaneously
  2. “I don’t want to live in a country that is a cult or in a kind of echo chamber.” — Ari Emanuel
  3. “She didn’t come back with a chip on her shoulder. She came back to serve and did the same thing she did when she was a principal, which was to look out for the kids and the families that she was entrusted with.” — Former CPS CEO Janice Jackson on CPS school board president candidate Jessica Biggs, who faces criticism over her 2018 firing from her post at Burke Elementary School
  4. “This is the new media system. This is how people are communicating nowadays.” — CTU Vice President Jackson Potter on his union paying social media influencers to push its political message
  5. “Is this first-degree murder? Not by any stretch of the imagination. Corie was in a state of psychosis when she harmed her child.” — Defense attorney Robert Kerr at a detention hearing for Corie Walsh, a Frankfort mother accused of killing her 2-year-old son