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Bob Fioretti, former 2nd Ward alderman, speaks in this undated file photo.

More Chicago mayoral candidates join the call for City Council changes

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

Ald. Edward Burke’s federal attempted extortion case provided two more mayoral candidates with the springboard Monday to call for City Council practices to be scrutinized and upended in order to...

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 unveils ethics plan following Ald. Edward Burke’s criminal charge

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

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will use the even-greater-than-usual crisis of faith in Chicago public officials following the attempted extortion charge against Ald. Edward Burke to try to tighten up city rules...

<p>Chicago mayoral candidates LaShawn Ford and Jeremiah Joyce have a laugh while participating in a WGN-TV hosted forum at Steinmetz College Prep on Jan. 10, 2019.</p>

LaShawn Ford to appear on mayoral ballot, election board rules

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

State Rep. LaShawn Ford’s name should appear on the mayoral election ballot, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners ruled Saturday, giving Chicagoans a look at what could be the final...

Mayoral candidate Dorothy Brown speaks after handing over her signed petitions to file for candidacy on Nov. 26, 2018, at the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

Dorothy Brown alleges fraud in her fight to get on Chicago mayoral ballot

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

Mayoral candidate Dorothy Brown on Thursday said she’s being targeted with election fraud in her fight to get on the mayoral ballot, and she called for an investigation into what...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, shown in October 2018, contends in a new ad for her mayoral campaign that she was an early voice of concern over the police slaying of Laquan McDonald.

Toni Preckwinkle defends against criticism of her mayoral campaign’s Laquan McDonald TV ad

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

Toni Preckwinkle defended her opening campaign ad focused on the Laquan McDonald controversy Thursday against charges that she exaggerated her role in exposing the facts of the police shooting death...

Ald. Ricardo Munoz, 22nd, leaves Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago on Jan. 3, 2019. A judge ordered Munoz to stay away from his wife, their home and his wife's workplace.

U.S. Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia, 22nd Ward candidates call for Ald. Ricardo Munoz to resign after domestic battery charge

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

U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and the candidate Ald. Ricardo Munoz backed to succeed him on the City Council have joined three other challengers for the council seat in calling...

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....

Ald. Scott Waguespack, 32nd, along with other aldermen and members of the Chicago City Council Progressive Reform Caucus, speaks on council reform during a press conference at City Hall, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019.

Mayoral hopefuls, aldermen line up to push reforms in wake of Burke charges

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

With powerful Ald. Edward Burke weakened by federal charges and the unsavory aspects of business at City Hall at the forefront of voters’ minds just weeks before an election, mayoral...

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...

El concejal Ed Burke se convirtió en presidente del Comité de Finanzas en 1983.

Concejal Burke renuncia a su poderoso puesto en el Comité de Finanzas

January 4, 2019 at 12:16 p.m.

El concejal de más antigüedad, Edward Burke, dejará la poderosa posición de presidente del Comité de Finanzas del Concilio Municipal, después de ser acusado el jueves de intento de extorsión,...

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