John Byrne

Baseball and cold beer were distant dreams on a recent icy afternoon as Ald. Tom Tunney hustled past Wrigley Field, pointing out the several restaurants and bars in the new...

City treasurer candidate Ald. Ameya Pawar challenged state Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin’s campaign petitions Monday and called for them to be invalidated because of what his complaint labeled “a systemic pattern...

Chicago’s mayoral race entered a chaotic new phase Monday, with candidates scrambling to file challenges to try to knock other opponents off the ballot for not having enough valid petition...

State Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin is officially in the race for city treasurer, saying she’s the candidate who best understands the struggles of working class Chicagoans. Conyears-Ervin said she wants to...

Ald. Ed Burke on Monday said “of course” he will continue his run for a new term representing the Southwest Side ward where he has held sway for five decades,...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle plans to challenge more than 14,000 of fellow Chicago mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza’s petition signatures, setting up a high-stakes fight over whether the state...

No one represents Chicago’s old-school machine politics — or what’s left of it — more than City Hall’s longest-serving and most powerful alderman, Ed Burke. But in the wake of...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday refused to weigh in on whether Ald. Ed Burke should step down from representing his ward or give up his Finance Committee chairmanship a day...

Federal agents swarmed Ald. Ed Burke’s City Hall and ward offices Thursday morning, kicking out employees and hours later hauling boxes of records and computers from rooms that for decades...