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MAYOR’s COMMS SHUFFLE — NOW URLACHER SEEKS RE-ELECTION — TEACHER TALKS STALL, KIDS STILL HOME Presented by Uber Driver Stories TOP TALKER Lori Lightfoot’s communications office for nearly 18 months, is leaving, and Kate LeFurgy, deputy director of the office, is stepping up. “Kate has played a critical part in navigating our city through the enormous challenges of the last year,” Lightfoot said in a statement. “She is fiercely committed to our mission of building a transparent, r...

Biss said the role of the police in the realm of public safety has become too broad. “Over the course of the last really 50 years in American life, we have massively cranked up the number of problems to which we’ve decided that the solution is a guy with a gun,” Biss said. “And it has, most of all, harmed the communities… whose problems are attempted to be solved in the wrong way.” Biss, a former state senator representing Evanston and a 2018 gubernatorial candidate, is campaigning ...

Evanston Now Biss totally dominates fundraising in mayor’s race Former State Senator Daniel Biss has 46 times as much money on hand for his Evanston mayoral campaign as the other two candidates in the race combined. Former State Senator Daniel Biss has 46 times as much money on hand for his Evanston mayoral campaign as the other two candidates in the race combined. Campaign finance reports due last Friday at the State Board of Elections show Biss has $119,324 on hand after spending $6,036 on ...

At a mayoral candidate forum Thursday, Willie Shaw, the political action and civic engagement chair for the Evanston/North Shore branch of the NAACP, asked mayoral candidates how they would distribute a $1 million grant for city services.  Former State Sen. Daniel Biss said he would use the money for “emergency causes” such as assisting small businesses, helping families struggling to pay bills, and addressing the city’s budget problem. Lori Keenan, an activist and principal of a local w...

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Evanston Now Daniel Biss has built up a huge lead in fundraising for Evanston’s mayoral election. With a week left before the campaigns have to file their fourth quarter finance reports, the former state senator has reported raising $58,400 in contributions of $1,000 or more. That’s on top of the $20,074 Biss had on hand at the end of the 3rd Quarter. Under state law, donations of $1,000 or more have to be reported within five days of receipt most of the year and with two days of receipt wi...