Ald. Sophia King joins race to unseat Lightfoot
King is chair of the Chicago City Council’s Progressive Caucus. Her husband, Alan, an attorney and house music DJ, is a close friend and basketball-playing buddy of former President Barack Obama.
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King is chair of the Chicago City Council’s Progressive Caucus. Her husband, Alan, an attorney and house music DJ, is a close friend and basketball-playing buddy of former President Barack Obama.
So many fantastical ideas have gotten mayoral support in Chicago yet still failed — many of them famously. Here are 10 of them.
Construction is set to start later this year at 400 Lake Shore Drive after more than a decade as an empty plot. The site was originally reserved for the Chicago Spire, a 2,000-foot tall, twisted tower designed by Santiago Calatrava. The project, however, was canceled following the onset of the...
"I hope this brings more families and residents to the neighborhood."
"It's been a civic embarrasment."