Chance The Rapper Endorses Toni Preckwinkle For Mayor
Just days after Toni Preckwinkle's campaign stopped spending money on TV ads, her bid for mayor picked up a boost with the endorsement of Grammy winner Chance the Rapper.
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Just days after Toni Preckwinkle's campaign stopped spending money on TV ads, her bid for mayor picked up a boost with the endorsement of Grammy winner Chance the Rapper.
Meantime, Toni Preckwinkle received the endorsement of a host of west siders, including Illinois U.S. Congressman Danny Davis.
If victorious, Lightfoot is set to make history not only as Chicago's first black female mayor, but Chicago's first openly gay mayor as well.
Past speakers at the Christian liberal arts and sciences university's forum include former President George W. Bush, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The development comes as preliminary evidence shows striking similarities between two deadly crashes involving 737 Max aircraft in the past six months.
Early voting begins Monday in all 50 wards, as voters cast ballots in the races for mayor, city treasurer, and 15 aldermanic races.
Lightfoot has raised $676,000. By contrast, Preckwinkle has raised $329,000 with labor unions the biggest contributors at $135,000.
Both candidates said poor communities need more investment, jobs, and mental health facilities.
More than 30 Illinois communities have already enacted Tobacco 21 ordinances, including Arlington Heights, Lake Zurich and Park Ridge.
Four years ago, the plumbers endorsed Rahm Emanuel. In the election's first round, the union backed Bill Daley, citing a 60-year relationship with the Daley family. But Coyne said Lightfoot's emphasis on jobs won him over.
Pritzker says Illinois' current tax system is unfair to the middle class. Republicans and some business leaders don't support the proposal.
Her endorsement by Kelly Cassidy was a rallying cry for LGBTQ voters to flock to the polls for Lightfoot. The unknown question: How many conservative voters may be motivated to vote against Lightfoot, for the same reason.
The decision means the world of Democratic politics will head to Wisconsin, a state the party failed to win during the 2016 election, to pick their 2020 nominee.
Lori Lightfoot gladly accepted the backing of former candidate Willie Wilson, who won 14 of Chicago's black wards, in the election's first round. But Toni Preckwinkle's campaign charged that Wilson sought to name key commissioners and asked Preckwinkle to pay his campaign costs in exchange for Wilson's support.
Candidates for Chicago mayor may start circulating petitions on Tuesday for the election in February 2027.
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
President Trump cracked jokes at the redo of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, after an armed assailant upended April's dinner.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased commercial spyware that can covertly take control of phones, collect messages, photos and location information.
A new lawsuit argues that Wisconsin's elections commission is wrongly blocking absentee voters from canceling their ballots and requesting new ones, with nearly 91,000 ballots already returned ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
Carly Simon, the singer known for 1970s hits like "You're So Vain," announced she has Parkinson's disease and also was treated for basal cell carcinoma.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Iowa announced a fall exhibition game against Kansas at the Field of Dreams ballpark, where major and minor league games have been played since 2021.
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the first film shot entirely on 70mm IMAX cameras, and Cinemark Seven Bridges in Woodridge is 1 of roughly 30 theaters nationwide equipped to show it that way.
Brenda Fricker won an Academy Award for 1989's "My Left Foot," played the Pigeon Lady in "Home Alone 2" and appeared in "A Time to Kill" and "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
The body cameras officers are using can translate and detect 57 languages using AI. Fairfax County police began this pilot program in February.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
Police say the victims are two men, ages 19 and 44, and a 56-year-old woman. Four other people, including a 2-year-old boy, were wounded.
An "extremely dangerous" tornado hit parts of eastern Wisconsin Monday. The tornado was spotted near Appleton, Menasha and Lake Winnebago, about 30 miles southwest of Green Bay, around 12:15 p.m.
A round of sudden severe storms late Monday morning have left a wake of damage and flooding, especially in the south and southwest suburbs.
A second round of severe storms has already prompted tornado warnings in some south and southwest suburbs.
First responders in Downers Grove are trying to rescue two workers who became trapped in a storm sewer during the first round of sudden and severe storms Monday.
A Lisle, Illinois, man accused of causing a deadly boat crash on the Fox River this past weekend allegedly had a blood alcohol content level nearly three times the legal limit at the time.
Crown Point police said the victim died on Sunday after being hit by the motorcycle on Saturday night.
An "extremely dangerous" tornado hit parts of eastern Wisconsin on Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
While Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn't announced if he will run for re-election next year, he's boasting about lower vacancy rates for Mag Mile buildings and taking credit for the positive changes.
A Lockport foster parent said he lost his kids, job and home for months after a mix-up that landed his name on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.
Record heat and major air quality issues created by wildfire smoke were key topics as some of the top climate leaders from around the world gathered in Chicago this week for the Aspen Institute's annual climate summit.
Police say a man and a woman were last seen speaking with the victim before the shooting.
Neighbors in the Avalon Park neighborhood said their community has been plagued by squatters, weeds, rats, and water leaks – all thanks to an abandoned home that's been sitting vacant for years.
The son of Chiefs assistant coach Eric Bieniemy has been arrested and charged with a shooting that wounded his mother, Mia Bieniemy, according to authorities in Virginia.
Center fielders Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones and second baseman Jeff Kent were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.
Murakami hit a 385-foot, two-run homer in the bottom of the first that gave Chicago its first lead of the game. It was his first homer since May 27th.
Ryan O'Hearn hit a grand slam on his 33rd birthday, as the Pirates held off the Cubs 8-7 to avoid being swept in the three-game series.
The south Chicago suburb of Robbins, Illinois, on Sunday honored retired NBA basketball player Dwyane Wade with a new street name and a day of celebration.
The son of Chiefs assistant coach Eric Bieniemy has been arrested and charged with a shooting that wounded his mother, Mia Bieniemy, according to authorities in Virginia.
Chicago police issued an alert this past weekend about a string of ATM-related thefts on the city's South and Southwest sides.
Crash-and-grab burglars hit a Shell gas station on the cusp of Chicago's Lakeview and Lincoln Park communities early Monday morning.
A robber jumped through a drive-thru window at a McDonald's in Chicago's Belmont Cragin community early Monday morning.
Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival in Seattle, police said. A 15-year-old suspect was in custody.
