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  • Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed 47th Ward Ald. Ameya Pawar’s push to study what a universal basic income will mean for Chicago. Former Gov. Pat Quinn vowed to go to court after the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners affirmed a ruling by a hearing officer that voters should not get a chance to decide whether Chicago mayors should be limited to two terms.
  • The race to replace Mayor Rahm Emanuel began take shape Wednesday with U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez’ announcement that he will not be a candidate.

    Preckwinkle consults with her Chief of Staff, John Keller, at a Cook County Board meeting on September 12, 2018.


  • Children younger than 13 would no longer be detained at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center under a measure that cleared the county’s Criminal Justice committee Tuesday.

  • A Wicker Park community center and soup kitchen would be transformed into 16 apartments under a plan set to be considered Wednesday by the City Council’s Zoning Committee.

  • For weeks, animal-rights activists have made sure to be at City Hall early on days when the City Council is scheduled to meet in order to make a public plea to aldermen to ban horse-drawn carriages.

    A carriage from the now-shuttered Noble Horse stables rumbles down Wells Street in 2011. [Flickr/David B. Gleason]
  • Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) is set to launch a push to create a registry of Chicago murals, after it ran into a brick wall at last month’s meeting of the Zoning Committee  failed to advance Thursday, after aldermen agreed the plan designed to prevent graffiti-removal crews from wiping them out could backfire. Two new candidates for the City Council surfaced, and a commissioner weighed in on what Toni Preckwinkle would be like as mayor.

  • Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot backed 47th Ward Ald. Ameya Pawar’s bid to test a basic universal income in Chicago, citing her poverty-stricken childhood. City Treasurer Kurt Summers launched a new website as he considers a bid for mayor.

  • The Cook County Board room is expected to be more full than usual Tuesday, with reporters eager to pepper President Toni Preckwinkle about her political future.


  • Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s effort to limit Chicago mayors to two terms in office should not appear on the Nov. 6 ballot, a Chicago Board of Elections Commissioner ruled Monday.

    Former Gov. Pat Quinn delivers mayoral term limit petitions signed by more than 86,481 people to Peter Polacek, the managing editor of the City Council Journal. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
  • Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is set to announce she will form an exploratory campaign for mayor — even though she is already running for a second term as county board president. After weighing a run for mayor, community activist Jedidiah Brown will run again for the City Council.

  • The latest round of tests found 644 homes near O’Hare and Midway airports have a foul odor coming from their city-installed sound-reduction windows, according to the latest tally of complaints investigated by city officials.

    A plane flies over the city. [Heather Cherone]
  • Ald. Jason Ervin (28) drew a challenger, while the races in the 25th and 43rd Wards got even more crowded. Meanwhile, Jerry Joyce reported a big haul of campaign cash and Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed to leave no ally behind — despite his looming departure from City Hall.

  • Chicago Police officers will be required to report when they pointed a gun at someone, after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan prevailed in a dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel — one day after he announced he not seek a third term.

    Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson discusses the draft consent decree. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]
  • Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson told reporters at City Hall Thursday that he should be treated as a frontrunner in the race for Chicago mayor, pointing to two polls taken in recent days.

    Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson speaks to reporters. [Submitted photo]
  • Even as the mayoral race drew most of the attention, a new candidate filed to run for the open 22nd Ward seat, while the 33rd Ward committeeman dropped his bid for alderman of the Northwest Side ward. Despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision not to run for a third-term, his organization’s challenge of a measure that would impose a two-term limit on Chicago’s mayors will continue.