Opinion
Austin and Tinky weigh in on the mayoral race
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Here’s our last installment of Austin and Tinky:
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Here’s our last installment of Austin and Tinky:
Jason Ervin will serve until mid-May. He and three others are vying Feb. 22nd to win a four-year term representing the 28th Ward.
The Center for Neighborhood Technology will help local residents who want to host election parties to discuss being green and learn where the candidates for mayor and Chicago City Council stand on sustainability.
The Chicago News Cooperative’s Hunter Clauss reports today that the minister has dropped his bid to challenge Ald. Deborah Graham in the Feb. 22nd election.
Election officials remove aldermanic candidates Carol Johnson and Erick Von Kondrat from the Feb. 22nd ballot after a staffer for retired Ald. Ed Smith raised objections.
View the applications of the six candidates seeking to complete the term of retired Ald. Ed Smith.
It will be January before West Side residents know who they can vote for in the 28th, 29th and 37th Ward races. A record number of candidate objections has delayed the work of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
Hearings for both races start Wednesday at the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. Check out the schedule.
Incumbent Ald. Emma Mitts faces one challenger from the 2007 election and four new candidates. The deadline to challenge petitions – and possibly knock someone off the Feb. 22 ballot – is Nov. 30.
The longtime alderman’s resignation, less than three months before the Feb. 22nd election, could give Maywood Village Manager Jason Ervin a boost over the nine others who filed for the seat.