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The Chicago municipal election is set for Feb. 28, but there is a very real possibility that we may not know the final two contenders for the April 4 runoff...

With nine candidates on the ballot in the race for the next mayor of Chicago, a runoff election seems likely. But first, voters will need to make a critical...

Where ballots are being cast for the Chicago mayoral election could be very telling.

“The steady amount of voting that we’ve seen over the last three weeks really suggests that we’re going to have a high turnout for Election Day,” said Max Bever, director of public information at the Chicago Board of Elections.

In the Feb. 28 election, the fate of City Hall’s fifth floor is just one reason voters should care. There are highly contested aldermanic races across the city.

Chicago voters had cast 63,949 ballots through Tuesday, according to the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners. Voters are returning mail-in ballots in record numbers.

Voters choosing to mail in their ballots are driving record early returns in the city’s Feb. 28 municipal election.

The leap in vote-by-mail ballots could push overall turnout past 40%, which the city hasn’t seen in a municipal election in over a decade.

With a little over two weeks until the Chicago mayoral election, one of the race’s front-runners is expressing disappointment over a story that seemed to...

Whom residents select as mayor, members of City Council and of new police districts will shape how Chicago will move forward.