Aldermanic Races Heating Up
While the mayoral race has dominated the headlines, voters a week from Tuesday will also be casting their ballots in several hotly-contested aldermanic races.
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While the mayoral race has dominated the headlines, voters a week from Tuesday will also be casting their ballots in several hotly-contested aldermanic races.
While Cook County officials have been working to close a $487 million budget deficit, union employees at its health and hospital system are being paid $250 bonuses for coming into work during last week's blizzard.
A group of Illinois Senate Democrats has introduced a proposal that would gradually raise the state's minimum wage to more than $10 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the nation.
A delay in the lawsuit involving the O'Hare Modernization Program is being hailed by the two U.S. senators from Illinois.
During this Black History month, some South Shore residents and others say they have a piece of black history right along 71st Street.
Not everybody likes the idea of a state police director who's never been a cop, and there is still no official action on the man who remains "acting director."
To hear one state senator tell it, life as a public servant can pay very, very well.
Sparks flew between Rahm Emanuel and his two closest challengers at a mayoral debate Thursday night, but a new poll shows Emanuel continuing to add to his already sizable lead.
The gloves have come off in the race for Mayor, with the rest of the field setting its sights on frontrunner Rahm Emanuel, attacking his "luxury services" tax proposal and his ties to mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
Advocates for a new government in Egypt watched Thursday as President Hosni Mubarak said he won't step down anytime soon.
The acting director of the Illinois State Police will soon get the job full-time, as state lawmakers have missed their chance to block his appointment.
The actual Election Day is Feb. 22, and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners is getting ready.
An Indiana State Senate committee has approved a bill that is intended to bring about an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration in the state.
The days could be numbered for free health insurance for Illinois state retirees.
All six candidates for Chicago mayor went head-to-head Wednesday night at a debate at the DuSable Museum of African-American history.
