Second Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti, who had been mulling a run for mayor even before Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he would not seek re-election, told the Chicago News Cooperative Tuesday that he is “leaning” toward a bid and will make a formal announcement in the next few days. (more…)
Chicago’s City Council, which has provided little more than meek approval to Mayor Richard M. Daley‘s dictates for two decades, grappled Tuesday with his stunning decision not to seek another term in next year’s election.
Edward Burke, the 14th Ward alderman and dean of the 50-member council, said everybody who might run to replace him is “reeling from an announcement that, frankly, nobody that I know in politics thought would happen. Everybody that I talked to assumed that Rich Daley would be a candidate for re-election.” (more…)
Police Superintendent Jody Weis’s August 11 meeting with alleged gang leaders continues to stoke debate over how to reduce violence in Chicago—but not in the City Council committee responsible for oversight of the police department. (more…)
Today is the first day for circulating nominating petitions to get on the February city election election, and Alderman Scott Waguespack said Monday he would seek signatures to run for four more years as 32nd Ward alderman — not for mayor. (more…)
As the city faces a budget deficit that could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Mayor Richard M. Daley‘s administration is looking at all sorts of ways to raise money. (more…)
For the first time in 28 years, it is legal to own a handgun in Chicago after the City Council voted 45-0 to approve Mayor Richard M. Daley‘s ordinance to regulate the firearms. (more…)
City officials said Mayor Richard M. Daley‘s new proposal to regulate guns will be the toughest such law in the nation, but the ordinance introduced today is not nearly as restrictive as what mayoral aides had hoped for. (more…)
Mayor Richard M. Daley wants to prohibit anyone who has been convicted of any violent crime, domestic violence or has two or more drunk-driving offenses from owning a handgun.
The new proposal announced today would replace the city’s handgun ban, which was effectively ended by a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. (more…)
More than six years after approving Chicago’s only Wal-Mart store, the City Council approved a South Side development that will include the retail giant’s second store in town. (more…)
Mayor Richard M. Daley today called for a special City Council meeting on Friday to approve a new anti-gun measure that would replace the longstanding handgun ban, which the U.S. Supreme Court effectively neutered in a ruling Monday. (more…)
