Sam Royko News Today

As a citywide spike in robberies and carjackings continues, West Town area residents and a Northwest Side alderman gathered Wednesday to call for Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling to lay out specifics for combating the violent crime surge. CPD records show that robberies and motor vehicle thefts have surged more than 60% and 90%, respectively, in ...

Fifty years after U.S. beers scored poorly against imported rivals in a backyard test by columnist Mike Royko, domestics prove they’ve improved. Slats would approve.

It’ll be a race to the runoff for West Side Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) — and a sigh of relief for Logan Square Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st).

West Side Ald. Chris Taliaferro joined several others in having to win a runoff in less than three weeks in order to keep his seat.

It’ll be a race to the runoff for West Side Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) — and a sigh of relief for Logan Square Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st).

The official results, including all eligible mail-in ballots counted by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday, put Ald. Chris Taliaferro 25 votes shy of the majority he needed to win a third term outright.

Freshman Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) picked up a slim majority in his reelection bid on Monday, potentially allowing him to avoid an April runoff against a man whose last name was once a household word in Chicago.

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) had 50.1% of the vote after the latest batch of mail-in ballots were tallied, putting him just 12 votes over the minimum needed to avoid a runoff against challenger Sam Royko.

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

With votes continuing to trickle in, it looks like there will be plenty of intriguing races on the ballot when Chicagoans return to the polls for the April 4...