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Chicago mayor face-off: Lightfoot or Preckwinkle
Chicago will have its first African-American female mayor after Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle secured the top spots in Tuesday's primary election, but both candidates have had issues in the past.
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Moreno loses 1st Ward Chicago Alderman seat in upset to La Spata
In one of the upsets in Tuesday's city-wide elections in Chicago, 1st Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno, whose private life raised questions in the run-up to voting day, lost his seat of about eight years to challenger Daniel La Spata.
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How Chicago lost its middle class
According to a WBEZ article, the middle class in Chicago has been steadily shrinking since the 1970s and today is nearly nonexistent, an unsettling trend predicted by many.
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Local investor thinks new taxes would hurt Chicago
Jeffrey Carter thinks the damage done to Chicago by the tax increase now being proposed would be as immediate as it would be lasting.
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Robling: New taxes could break Chicago
Chris Robling fears the latest tax increases being proposed for Chicago could be the added burden that breaks the entire system.
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Krupa not afraid to take on Quinn and Madigan
David Krupa says he won't be surprised if his brewing dispute with powerful House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) and 13th Ward Chicago Ald. Marty Quinn winds up in the federal court system.
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FBI raids Burke's City Hall office—again
On the evening of Dec. 13, FBI agents raided the City Hall offices of longtime Alderman Ed Burke—the second such raid in less than a month.
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Burke denies wrongdoing, will cooperate with authorities
Longtime Chicago alderman Ed Burke is standing firm in his position after his City Council and ward offices were recently raided by federal authorities.
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New Chicago ordinance cracks down on home-sharing
Some Chicago residents could face pre-revolutionary British-styled tactics of high fines, taxation and unreasonable home searches by the government thanks to a new city ordinance signed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel earlier this month.