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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, right, introduces herself to guests before a forum with five other mayoral candidates at the Union League Club of Chicago on Friday, Jan 25, 2019.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s third ad in Chicago mayor’s race focuses on education

May 15, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

Toni Preckwinkle argues in her third mayoral campaign ad that her background as a Chicago Public Schools teacher and grandmother of CPS students leaves her with a personal stake in...

A view looking north, May 11, 2017, shows the 62-acre site of a proposed future residential community, dubbed The 78, to be developed by Related Midwest.

Candidate wants to slow down subsidy for The 78 project after reports of federal investigation at City Hall

May 15, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

A candidate seeking to succeed Ald. Danny Solis in the City Council says Solis’ cooperation with federal investigators means the city should pump the brakes on a public subsidy to...

Ald. Daniel Solis, 25th, appears at a Chicago City Council meeting on March 16, 2016.

Revelations about Ald. Daniel Solis wearing wire for FBI have created ‘a toxic atmosphere’ at Chicago City Hall

May 15, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

In the days since his federal cooperation came to light, rumors about whom City Council Ald. Daniel Solis may have caught saying something stupid on tape have created a parlor...

Chicago mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza speaks during a National Association of Black Journalists meeting Jan. 17, 2019.

Chicago Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts backs state Comptroller Susana Mendoza for mayor

May 15, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

Members of the Ricketts family that owns the Cubs are getting deeper into the Chicago mayoral race, and they aren’t backing the same candidates. Two days after team CEO Tom...

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown, right, on Jan. 31, 2019, said she would be backing Amara Enyia in Chicago's upcoming mayoral race.

Dorothy Brown backs Amara Enyia in Chicago mayor’s race

May 15, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

Dorothy Brown backed public policy consultant Amara Enyia for mayor Thursday, potentially giving a boost to her candidacy in the crowded field. Brown, the Cook County Circuit Court clerk, called...

Ald. Daniel Solis, shown in 2015, has said he derailed the proposed apartment and commercial complex because the developer wouldn't meet his demands for more affordable housing units in it.

Attorneys in Pilsen development case want to depose Ald. Daniel Solis soon

May 15, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

The City Hall corruption scandal involving Ald. Daniel Solis wearing an undercover wire for the FBI is now bleeding into a court case over a proposed giant housing development that’s...

Ald. Daniel Solis, 25th, sits behind a mound of papers at a meeting of the Chicago City Council in 2017. There are reports he wore a wire as part of a federal investigation into Ald. Edward Burke.

Ald. Daniel Solis stepping down as City Council’s Zoning Committee chairman

May 15, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Ald. Daniel Solis will step down from his post as the powerful chairman of the City Council Zoning Committee, according to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, amid reports Solis wore a wire...

Former Ald. Richard Mell, Ald. Daniel Solis and Ald. Edward Burke at a City Council meeting in 2013..

Chicago politicians call for reform, following report House Speaker Michael Madigan was secretly recorded

May 15, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Chicago aldermen and mayoral candidates continued pushing Tuesday for the kinds of government reforms they say Chicagoans are clamoring for in the wake of a federal public corruption investigation at...

Then-City Clerk Susana Mendoza confers with Ald. Daniel Solis during a City Council meeting in 2014. Now the state comptroller, Mendoza accepted $55,400 from a Solis-controlled political organization days before the March 2018 primary for that office, state records show.

Mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza returning money linked to wire-wearing Ald. Danny Solis

May 15, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza said Thursday that she will donate nearly $142,000 in campaign contributions linked to Ald. Daniel Solis and a company founded by the alderman’s sister. The announcement...

Ald. Daniel Solis, 25th, center, and Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, chat with former Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd, before Chicago City Council hearings in 2013.

‘The council needs full reform’: Aldermen react to report Ald. Daniel Solis wore an FBI wire in Ald. Edward Burke case

May 15, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Aldermen responded with shock Wednesday to a newspaper report that veteran Ald. Daniel Solis has been cooperating with federal authorities, some directing anger at him while others condemned City Hall...

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