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Joe Ferguson’s 12-year run made him Chicago’s longest-serving watchdog. Now he wants to take a deeper look at the mayor’s office, city departments, the City Council, local government agencies under the mayor’s control — all to show it is “different from everywhere else” and how those differences…

LOS ANGELES — Developer Rick Caruso's showing in the mayoral primary Tuesday demonstrated that a significant number of Angelenos want immediate changes on homelessness and aren't turned off by the vast fortune of a billionaire who has never held elected office.

"When those charges are brought, these people are guilty," Lightfoot said.

From June 12, 2019 through March 23, 2022, Lightfoot survived 131 divided roll calls, according to the new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago. That’s compared to just 54 during the last of Richard M. Daley’s six terms and 67 divided roll calls during the first of Rahm…

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Monday ruled against Ald. Edward Burke and his co-defendants in a slew of pretrial motions seeking to suppress evidence and toss certain charges in his racketeering indictment, putting the case on track for a trial next year.

The judge’s consideration of the motions, first filed in August 2020, is in part why the three-year-old racketeering case has yet to go to trial. The COVID-19 pandemic also played a key role.

Ald. David Moore is proud of his success in the 17th Ward and defends his community. He — along with former state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and City Clerk Anna Valencia — is running to replace Jesse White as Illinois secretary of state.

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore office charged with implementing the city’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy defended itself in a letter delivered to the City Council on Friday, arguing the process of reversing violent trends in the city is not “overnight work.”

Nearly two-dozen candidates are running in the First Congressional District, which stretches from Chicago’s South Side nearly to Kankakee. “It really is important that you have somebody that speaks truth to power,” said political consultant Delmarie Cobb, who ran Rush’s first campaign in the…