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As Chicago’s embattled top cop exits, search for his replacement marks new civilian panel’s first real test

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability said the incoming mayor won’t have outsized influence in recommending candidates and won’t be able to subvert the selection process.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago mayoral rivals keep their differences mostly issue-focused at women’s forum

CHICAGO — Mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson differed on taxes, schools and the privatization of public resources during a robust forum Saturday largely dedicated to women’s issues.

Chicago Tribune

Race, always an issue in Chicago politics, was a key factor behind creating runoff for mayor

CHICAGO — Chicago’s April election between Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson features candidates with some of the starkest political differences in a head-to-head matchup since the city started having mayoral runoffs more than two decades ago.

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Garcia, progressives will unite behind Johnson, CTU president predicts

Johnson’s campaign manager said Johnson and Garcia have had “several good conversations.” More meetings with a “broader group” of Garcia supporters are scheduled for next week, in hoipes of securing Garcia’s endorsement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johnson lines up big union endorsement

Brandon Johnson also was endorsed by his County Board colleague, Toni Preckwinkle, who lost the 2019 mayoral runoff to Lori Lightfoot. Paul Vallas, meanwhile, was touted the support of Joyce Kenner, former principal of Whitney Young Magnet High School.

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CTU’s path to political influence, CPD’s top cop search and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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How the CTU marched from picket lines to political powerhouse

From its battles between ex-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and its late leader Karen Lewis in 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union is now hoping to help homegrown candidate Brandon Johnson win the runoff to be Chicago’s mayor.

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This interview never happened

Trying to nail down Lori Lightfoot could be a study in frustration.

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City Council poised for big changes with multiple races up for grabs

At least 10 races for alderperson appear headed for runoffs in April — but uncounted mail-in ballots remain a wild card in many of the contests.

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How Chicago elects a mayor, and why a winner may take weeks

Chicago is holding a mayoral election, but it will likely take a runoff before a winner is declared

The Independent UK

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot taking on 8 rivals in reelection bid

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fighting for reelection

The Independent UK

China threatens U.S. entities over the downing of suspected spy balloon

China insists the balloon was used for weather data. ‘The balloon to me is not an isolated incident,’ said Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan.

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US envoy confident Japan will ban LGBTQ discrimination

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel says he has “full confidence” that the Japanese government will take the necessary steps to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people

The Independent UK

China threatens US entities over balloon incident

China says it will enact measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast

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Businessman lands big deal with CTA, then helps Lightfoot’s reelection effort

The 77 Committee is the name of the fledgling effort by Lightfoot allies to bolster the embattled first-term mayor in the Feb. 28 election — often in ways she may not legally be able to do herself.

Chicago Sun-Times

After taking a pass on mayor’s race, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley endorses Garcia

Earlier this week, Garcia was endorsed by former Gov. Pat Quinn, who chose him over Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whom he supported four years ago, and Paul Vallas, whom he chose in 2014 as his running mate for lieutenant governor.

Chicago Tribune

Legal experts fear Chicago’s slow police reforms could lead to a Tyre Nichols incident 8 years after Laquan McDonald firestorm

CHICAGO — The video-recorded killing of Tyre Nichols that led to charges against police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, stirred echoes in Chicago, where eight years ago another recorded death similarly sent shock waves across the nation and spurred public demand for police reform.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Chuy’ Garcia touts strength as coalition builder: ‘Folks know me’

The congressman said the incumbent mayor has been too combative. “People are tired of the conflict and the bickering and the fighting that they think is representative of her style of government,” Garcia said.

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Friend of the Obamas, Ald. Sophia King hopes to defuse tension in city

King said she would Chicago Police Supt. David Brown, give “burned-out, overscheduled and underappreciated” officers more time off and create incentives needed to fill more than 1,400 sworn police vacancies.

Chicago Sun-Times

O’Hare’s expanded international terminal ‘stunning and beautiful,’ Lightfoot boasts

Four years in the making, the project means 25% more capacity for an international terminal once housed in the ground floor of a parking garage. It’s a major milestone for a massive airport renovation now projected to cost $12.1 billion.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sean O’Shea, a South Side native who worked at the White House under Clinton, dies at 46

Mr. O’Shea interned in the White House in college. He was a bit of a wunderkind and got invited back.

Chicago Sun-Times

Public safety training facility, once center of controversy, opens its doors

Mayor Lori Lightfoot had slammed the project before launching her first mayoral campaign, but did an about-face once in office, making the facility even bigger and more expensive.

Chicago Tribune

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s campaign spending outpacing how much she’s raising

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lost the financial advantage her campaign had over most opponents as her campaign spent twice as much as she raised during the last three months of 2022 while she launched expensive television ads aimed at rebuilding momentum in her bid for reelection.

Chicago Sun-Times

Challenging ballot petitions, a Chicago political tradition, may be on its way out

Objections to nominating petitions reach a 40-year low in this year’s municipal election cycle. “I think everybody was surprised at how few challenges there were,” said longtime Chicago election attorney Michael Dorf.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Council committee alters game plan on ‘astronomical’ vaping by Chicago teens

The ordinance would require a new city license whenever a retailer “derives more than 20 percent of their gross revenue from the sale of electronic cigarette products, accessories or liquid nicotine products.”

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