With full campaign coffers and support from deep-pocketed groups that support school choice, incumbent school board member Angel Gutierrez is guaranteed to keep his seat after nobody filed paperwork ...

Two Latinas with backgrounds in public service are vying to represent a slice of the Southwest Side that has one of the highest shares of schools in Chicago Public Schools with the state’s top two ...

An attorney is challenging an incumbent with a background in community organizing in a two-way race to represent one of Chicago’s most culturally diverse areas along the Far North Side lakefront.

Chicago’s first-ever race for school board president has generated millions in political contributions, political jockeying by special-interest groups and stirred controversy in a divisive and heated ...

Two men who both grew up in Humboldt Park, graduated from selective-enrollment Chicago public high schools, and became teachers through Teach for America are facing off — again — in the race to ...

Douglas DePodesta's lawsuit, filed Monday, targets the FBI, the Justice Department, Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI ...

The two women vying to represent Chicago’s Northwest Side are no strangers to politics — one ran for school board in 2024 and the other has run campaigns or worked for other elected officials for more ...

Suburban Cook County voters have cast over 240,000 ballots before Election Day. A majority of Chicago City Council members ...

They extend well beyond his interests in the Trump Tower along the Chicago River and include local government bonds, as well ...

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