The steady flow of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s cabinet members out the door of City Hall as his term ticks down continued Wednesday, as the meeting to pick a replacement for former state Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin was set for May 17.

The Chicago Police Department is doing a better job reporting dangerous gun owners to State Police, a year after an audit found officers were not alerting state officials as required by law, Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said Wednesday. A new report found that Chicago's affordable housing shortfall may be pushing millennials out of the city.

Elections officials will begin recounting votes in three aldermanic races decided by the slimmest of margins on Friday, officials said.

Chicago voters overwhelmingly elected Lori Lightfoot mayor Tuesday after a roller coaster campaign in which the former attorney and federal prosecutor vowed to dismantle the Chicago Machine and “reinvent” the city.

With Lightfoot’s victory, Chicago became the biggest U.S. city to elect a black woman to the top job. Lightfoot will also become Chicago’s first gay mayor, and Chicago will become the largest American city with a LGBTQ+ mayor.

Lightfoot won approximately 74 percent of the vote — and all 50 wards — against Toni Preckwinkle, according to early returns Tuesday night.

Precinct level results, via the Chicago Board of Elections
Board of Elections results
Chi.Vote results

Concerned that next year’s Census will miss Chicago’s hard-to-count populations, including African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, immigrants and non-native English speakers, homeless individuals, children younger than 5 and the elderly, Mayor Rahm Emanuel formed a new committee to keep tabs on the effort. Meanwhile, alderman OK’d two 11th Ward tax breaks.

A new campaign ad in Chicago’s race for city treasurer is calling out Ald. Ameya Pawar for his chronic absences at City Council committee meetings.

The 30-second spot, called “Every Day,” is funded by Pawar’s opponent, Democratic state Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin, D-Chicago.

The ad highlights data from an analysis by WBEZ and The Daily Line, which found the 47th Ward alderman has one of the lowest attendance rates in the City Council. Pawar went to less than half of the committee meetings he was required to. That was below the average 65 percent attendance rate for all 50 aldermen.

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“Ameya Pawar is a typical politician,” the voice-over in the video begins. “Pawar’s missed more than half his meetings as alderman.”

It goes on to ding Pawar for voting in favor of the city’s record property tax hike in 2015. The ominous soundtrack flips to jubilant music when Conyears-Ervin is introduced as she appears to walk the city talking with voters.

A person familiar with the Conyears-Ervin campaign said they placed a $190,000 ad buy for the commercial to run on all local TV stations this week, and expects to spend more next week before the April 2 runoff election.

Pawar’s campaign shot back in an emailed statement, saying that he has a 95 percent attendance rate at full City Council meetings. But that only includes monthly meetings, and not the vast majority of subject-specific committee hearings where aldermen can make changes to legislation and hear testimony.

The alderman also called Conyears-Ervin “a machine backed Springfield politician” who voted in favor of a state income tax hike, while Pawar highlighted his record on “social justice and government reform.”

Pawar and Conyears-Ervin will go head to head in next month’s runoff election because neither of them garnered a majority in the first round of voting on Feb. 26. The city treasurer oversees the city’s bank accounts and its investment portfolio.

Conyears-Ervin is the wife of 28th Ward Ald. Jason Ervin. Pawar is nearing the end of his second term on the City Council. Though there are no official term limits for Chicago aldermen, Pawar has long said he would leave after two terms. In 2018, he abandoned a longshot run for governor before the March Democratic primary.

Recent polling shows both candidates in a dead-heat ahead of the April 2 election.

Are you ready for round two? Voters eager to make their pick for mayor and treasurer — and residents of 15 wards with aldermanic runoffs — can head Downtown to cast their ballot. Lori Lightfoot continued her clean-sweep of endorsements from former rivals, while Toni Preckwinkle added another labor organization to her long list of union backers.

After notching two high-profile victories at a tense City Council meeting, Mayor Rahm Emanuel allowed himself a brief victory lap at his penultimate post-Council news conference — but vowed once again to “run through the tape” at the end of his term as mayor.

With all of the votes cast in the Feb. 26 election finally counted, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners are set to certify the results, as several unions made their picks for the second round of voting.

As a 2-year-old bill that gives state officials the green light to sell the James R. Thompson Center awaits Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42) said he still hasn’t seen a new proposal for the much-loved and -loathed building.