A growing number of sitting alderpersons are either not running at all, or they’ve been forced to withdraw and perhaps run as write-in candidates after failing to gather the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot.
Toni Preckwinkle declared victory in her bid for a fourth term as Cook County Board president in a race that landed voters in familiar territory: a rematch with Bob Fioretti.
Federal prosecutors on Friday roundly rejected former state Rep. Luis Arroyo’s pitch for leniency in a bribery scheme to legalize the shadowy world of sweepstakes gambling, saying he deserves up to nearly five years in prison for his “blatant cash grab.”