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Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th, speaks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel during a City Council meeting March 13, 2019, at Chicago City Hall. The council's Rules Committee on Monday set aside an Emanuel proposal to guarantee zoning applicants hearings on their requests within six months.

Chicago aldermen water down Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Council ethics plan proposed after federal City Hall investigation

May 15, 2019 at 5:39 p.m.

Aldermen watered down Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed City Council ethics plan Monday, scrapping clauses that would have tightened up what kinds of outside jobs they could hold and set deadlines...

From left, Amara Enyia, LaShawn K. Ford, Gery Chico, and Ja'Mal Green, listen in as Lori Lightfoot speaks at a Chicago mayoral candidates forum at the Copernicus Center on Chicago's Northwest Side on Dec. 11, 2018.

Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot and Chicago aldermen beginning a beautiful friendship … or not

May 15, 2019 at 5:39 p.m.

When Lori Lightfoot pounds the gavel at the front of City Council chambers after getting sworn in as Chicago’s mayor next month, she said she’ll be filling a role as...

Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, shown with a Mexican flag at his desk during a 2017 City Council meeting, said he "cannot and will not support this new political philosophy."

Ald. Raymond Lopez leaves Latino Caucus because colleagues endorsed his challenger in runoff

May 15, 2019 at 5:38 p.m.

The roiling changes in the City Council took on an added dimension Friday, as Southwest Side Ald. Raymond Lopez announced he has left the council’s Latino Caucus because colleagues in...

In this 2009 file photo, the New Promiseland M.B. Church, at 3540 W. Roosevelt Rd., left, is adjacent to Rothschild Cut Rate Liquors, Sunday, April 12 in Chicago.

Liquor licenses near churches could get approved locally under plan headed to full council

May 15, 2019 at 5:38 p.m.

The city Liquor Board would get the power to allow stores and restaurants that sell alcohol to open up closer to churches and schools under a plan supporters said would...

Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot, Toni Preckwinkle hold hands in prayer at unity rally: ‘A new day for all of Chicago’

May 12, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

Just 14 hours after her landslide victory to become Chicago’s next mayor, Lori Lightfoot held hands Wednesday morning with her vanquished opponent, Toni Preckwinkle, and prayed for the city’s future....

Marianne Lalonde, shown in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2018, is 23 votes behind Ald. James Cappleman, 46th.

Shape of City Council uncertain as aldermen prepare for arrival of Mayor Lori Lightfoot

May 12, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

Races involving three veteran aldermen facing upstart challengers remained undecided Wednesday, leaving uncertain the exact makeup of the legislative body that Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot will face as she tries to...

Andre Vasquez speaks at his election night party for the 40th Ward election runoff against Ald. Patrick O'Connor on April 2, 2019 at Mary's Attic.

Emanuel’s floor leader Ald. Patrick O’Connor out as progressives make City Hall gains

May 12, 2019 at 1:44 p.m.

Veteran North Side Ald. Patrick O’Connor fell short in his bid for a 10th term in one of 15 aldermanic runoff elections across the city Tuesday that will go a...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks with Ald. Patrick J. O'Connor, 40th, before the start of a City Council meeting in Chicago in 2015.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel looms over what could be pivotal City Council election

May 12, 2019 at 1:44 p.m.

During the final days before Tuesday’s elections, a Mayor Rahm Emanuel-aligned political action committee poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaigns of several of his preferred aldermanic candidates...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks about Cook County prosecutors' decision to drop charges against Jussie Smollett at Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom in Chicago on March 26, 2019.

Chicago seeks to recoup $130,000 from Jussie Smollett as war of words heats up

August 22, 2019 at 10:49 a.m.

The demand that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett pay Chicago back for an alleged hate crime hoax despite being cleared of criminal charges punctuated an increasingly heated war of words Thursday...

Then-mayoral candidate Jerry Joyce appears at the early-voting Loop super site, in advance of the election on Feb. 25, 2019.

Jerry Joyce not considering a 2020 run for Kim Foxx’s job, but says Smollett case ‘doesn’t jibe with what we know’

May 15, 2019 at 5:37 p.m.

Former mayoral candidate Jerry Joyce has questions about how the Cook County state’s attorney’s office handled the Jussie Smollett case, but he insists he isn’t angling for top prosecutor Kim...

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