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Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia, right, and Chance the Rapper, left, are momentarily joined by Kanye West, in bright orange, during a rally near 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Oct. 23, 2018, in Chicago.

Chance the Rapper gives $400K to Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia

May 15, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

Chance the Rapper put his money where his mouth has been for months in the Chicago mayor’s race, cutting a $400,000 check Tuesday to public policy consultant Amara Enyia. The...

Mayoral candidates Bill Daley, from left, Gery Chico, state Rep. La Shawn Ford, Willie Wilson and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle meet with the baiduhai Editorial Board on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.

At Tribune meeting, five Chicago mayoral candidates duck specifics on how to fill pension hole

May 15, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

Five candidates for Chicago mayor on Tuesday declined to outline a specific plan on how they would cover a $300 million pension hole in a matter of months if elected...

Candidates for Chicago mayor participate in the One Chicago for All Alliance forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum on Jan. 12, 2019.

More than 1,000 people pack UIC’s mayoral candidate forum focused on improving all Chicago neighborhoods

May 15, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

A standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,000 people packed the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum on Saturday morning to watch a Chicago mayoral forum focused on doing more to...

‘Make Chicago safe again.’ Garry McCarthy talks up policing chops in 2 new campaign ads

May 15, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Former Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has launched the largest television buy of his campaign for Chicago mayor, airing a pair of ads talking up his experience as the city's...

Garry McCarthy, left, looks on as Susana Mendoza picks up Toni Preckwinkle's name placard during a WGN-TV-hosted mayoral forum at Steinmetz College Prep High School on Chicago's Northwest Side on Jan. 10, 2019. Preckwinkle did not attend the forum.

Ald. Edward Burke’s attempted extortion charge looms over Chicago mayoral forum

May 15, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Exactly a week after federal authorities charged powerful Ald. Edward Burke with attempted extortion, the topic of the embattled 50-year machine politician — and his ties to some of Chicago’s...

Toni Preckwinkle’s first TV ad of Chicago mayor’s race focuses on Laquan McDonald

May 15, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is poised to start airing the first TV ad of her mayoral campaign, and it is focused on the most tumultuous moment of Mayor...

Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia, left, holds a news conference in the parking lot of the Burger King in the 4000 block of South Pulaski Road on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018. Ald. Edward Burke was allegedly trying to shakedown the owner of the restaurant.

Chicago mayoral candidates keep pushing ethics plans after Ald. Edward Burke corruption charge

May 15, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

The cavalcade of government ethics reform proposals kept coming from Chicago mayoral candidates Tuesday amid the fallout from powerful Ald. Edward Burke getting charged by federal authorities with attempted extortion....

Mayoral candidate Bill Daley greets attendees at a City Club of Chicago meeting on Nov. 28, 2018, at Maggiano's Little Italy in Chicago. Daley says Chicago should overhaul its government and reduce the number of aldermen from 50 to 15.

Bill Daley: Shrink Chicago City Council from 50 aldermen to 15

May 15, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

Given all the graft and corruption over the years, mayoral candidate Bill Daley says it’s time for Chicago to overhaul its government, starting with reducing the number of aldermen from...

Then-Ald. Toni Preckwinkle talks with Ald. Edward Burke before a committee meeting at City Hall in 2008.

Damage control: How Toni Preckwinkle is addressing her ties to the Ald. Edward Burke corruption scandal

May 15, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

Nearly seven weeks from the election for Chicago’s next mayor, Toni Preckwinkle finds herself in a familiar position: playing defense against a high-profile problem that could threaten to derail her...

Ald. Edward Burke's 14th Ward office in the 2600 block of West 51st Street is closed and the windows covered for an FBI investigation on Nov. 29, 2018.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel seeks ethics changes as Ald. Edward Burke steps down as finance chairman following federal charge

May 15, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

Ald. Edward Burke will end his long run as the powerful chairman of the City Council’s Finance Committee after being charged with attempted extortion, he announced Friday, but said he...

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