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Not even six months into the Brandon Johnson administration, his Council floor leader, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, had become a liability the mayor simply could not afford.
Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over potholes, fix up friends with patronage jobs, and make sure everyone who benefited knew how to vote — and for whom to vote. At its zenith during Mayor Richard J. Daley’s era, Chicago’s political ...
Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is to present a nominee within 60 days to replace convicted Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson.
Now that Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson has been convicted of federal tax charges, it falls to Mayor Lori Lightfoot to name someone to succeed him in the Daley family’s