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On Tuesday's John King USA, CNN's John King issued a prompt on-air apology minutes after a guest on his program used the term "crosshairs" during a segment: "We're trying to get away from using that kind of language" (audio available here). This action stands in stark contrast to an incident over a year earlier where former anchor Rick Sanchez took four days to apologize for using a unconfirmed quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh. The firearms term appeared durin...

Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke's corruption trial continued Thursday and new testimonies revealed efforts to shut down a Burger King rehab project.

Good afternoon, Chicago. A federal jury on Friday heard wiretapped calls between then-Ald. Edward Burke and former mayoral candidate Gery Chico where the two longtime Democratic heavyweights talked about a 2017 fundraiser and a local builder apparently slow to get on the Burke bandwagon. The calls were played by prosecutors in Burke’s corruption trial to underscore the then-powerful alderman’s ...

Prosecutors in Burke’s corruption trial say the call in 2017 demonstrated the former alderman’s “modus operandi.”

The state of Illinois and the cities of Naperville and Highland Park have the right to prohibit certain semi-automatic assault-type guns.

“In the end, the voters were right,” consultant Chimaobi Enyia said Monday. “Paul Vallas did not deserve to be the mayor of the city of Chicago.”

Six candidates were competing in the runoff to replace retiring Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th), Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th) and Ald. Howard Brookins Jr. (21st).

If Paul Vallas or Brandon Johnson think it’s been a tough campaign, wait until one of them gets into office.

America’s cities are some of its most solidly Democratic areas — but that doesn’t mean they are solidly liberal. Over the past two years, the mayoral elections …

Ana Guajardo, a labor organizer, won 27% of the vote in February while Peter Chico, a Chicago police officer, won 40%.