The aldermanic runoffs produced an upset in the 36th ward, a near-upset in the 25th ward, and a changing of the guard in the 50th. Reporters and writers are starting to drill down into the results. Plus: more Berny Stone.
I tracked all 14 aldermanic runoff races closely most of the day and late into the evening on Tuesday. Sound boring? Not for me—not with a new mayor coming in and the possibility, slim as it might be, that aldermen under Mayor Emanuel may morph into something more lively than potted plants. Here, some lessons and thoughts I had along the way…
Bernard Stone takes his quotables and goes home; this Bud’s for Cubs fans, the baseball not so much; a look inside Lane Tech, and more.
Madison turns out half its registered voters–by conservative estimates–to vote for a state Supreme Court justice, as Chicago’s aldermanic elections drag to a quietly eventful finish. Plus: towards a culinary theory of Chicago politics.
Nothing sends a family into a fury like Pediculus humanus capitis—a.k.a. head lice
Cubs fans are always worrying about something. Since we’re not far into the season, and nothing terribly exciting has happened so far, this week they’re worried about low attendance. (For a Monday afternoon game.) But attendance is the last thing the Cubs need to worry about.
What do star athletes do after their playing days are over? We tracked down a onetime Bears cornerback who’s now a practicing dentist and a missionary; a former Blackhawks star who copilots jetliners; an ex-Cub who became a jazz trumpeter; and more
It’s election day here in Chicago–again! And the best game in town… actually isn’t in town. It’s up north. Between the Packers, Scott Walker, and Paul Ryan, Wisconsinites are living in interesting times.
Sixteen years ago, Derrick Lemon watched as his brother was dropped out a window of the Ida B. Wells housing complex. Today, at the age of 24, Lemon was sentenced to 71 years in prison for shooting a man in 2006.
Alderman Danny Solis, in a runoff tomorrow for the 25th Ward seat, sent out a press release today announcing that he had drafted an anti-lead pollution ordinance requiring any “facility emitting lead at levels that are higher than… EPA standards… [to] cease operations immediately.” The release states that “new information” about “high lead levels” impacting a Pilsen elementary school prompted him to act…
