A New Chicago and a New Illinois After the 2018 and 2019 Elections

(May 16th, 2019, Chicago City Hall) — Le Chrisha Pearson, a Mt. Sinai Hospital CNA, spoke at the Reimagine Chicago press conference at City Hall, which was organized by the Grassroots Collaborative and United Working Families (UWF).

City Hall; Meet the new City Council. A new mayor and a dozen new aldermen take their seats Monday. Here’s everything you need to know about all 50 wards.

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Protecting Civil Rights Since 1969. Chicago Lawyers’ Committee was founded in 1969 as a group of civil rights lawyers and advocates working to secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all.

Nominations. In 2018, all states held primary elections to decide major nominees for the general election. California held a nonpartisan blanket primary to select nominees while the other 35 states held partisan primaries. Nominations were contested except in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Alaska and in Republican primaries in New Mexico, Iowa, Maryland, New Hampshire ...

The 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Illinois, concurrently with the 2018 Illinois general election.Incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner ran for re-election to a second term in office, but was defeated by Democratic nominee J. B. Pritzker.This was the second consecutive Illinois gubernatorial election in which the incumbent ran ...

Star gazers in cities as far south as New York and Chicago may get a rare glimpse of the northern lights this weekend due to an unusual geomagnetic storm. A giant cloud of charged particles from ...

Ballotpedia designated certain 2019 elections as battlegrounds, due to those races being either particularly competitive, interesting, or meaningful to the future balance of power in that jurisdiction. Here is a summary of some key 2019 municipal battleground elections: All 50 seats on the Chicago ...

Former Chicago Police Board President Lori Lightfoot defeated Cook County Board of Commissioners President Toni Preckwinkle in the April 2, 2019, runoff election for mayor of Chicago, Illinois.They were the top two vote-getters among 14 candidates in the general election on Feb. 26.. The 2019 race was Chicago's fourth open mayoral race in 100 years. Incumbent Rahm Emanuel, first elected in ...