UPDATE: John Garrido has decided not to seek a recount, conceding the 45th Ward race to rival John Arena, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. He reporte...

The City Council dreams of a Grammy Award-winning rapper appear to be over, for now at least. Rhymefest announced Friday morning on Twitter that hi...

As far as political close calls go, the aldermanic runoff in the 45th Ward is about as good as it gets. The unofficial tally currently pegs candida...

For all the hoopla over Daley's era ending, a longer tenure will end when Berny Stone leaves office this year. Though the stature of the office is sma...

CHICAGO — Chicago election officials say a candidate for alderman on the city's South Side has been arrested at a polling place for allegedly ha...

It was a frantic night Tuesday, with fourteen aldermanic seats up for grabs in the runoff election. Races around the city were incredibly close, and w...

Stay tuned to this live blog throughout the day for coverage of the Chicago aldermanic runoffs, as voters in 14 of the city's 50 wards decide the futu...

Yes, we just had a big election on February 22. And before that, we'd been through a brutal campaign cycle in November. But for voters in fourteen of ...

Alderman Berny Stone has been in the Chicago City Council for 37 years, long enough to have made his share of enemies in the 50th Ward. But on the eve...

UPDATE: In response to Friday's Tribune story, Alderman Solis announced Monday that he would push for a new ordinance regulating lead emissions at ...

Story by Joseph Erbentraut, courtesy of the Windy City Times With only a handful of days to go before voters in Chicago's 46th Ward head back to ...

Alderman Danny Solis was less than 100 votes away from sitting pretty. In 2007, he was able to win re-election to his 25th Ward seat without a runo...

"50th Ward Ald. Stone set up secret fund to attack rival Silverstein," read a Chicago Tribune headline on March 22. On Wednesday, Berny Stone, who ...

As elections go, the race for the 46th Ward aldermanic seat this February couldn’t have been much closer. Molly Phelan pulled in 2,727 votes; James ...

After a hotly contested November general election, and an equally aggressive citywide election this February, Chicagoans could be forgiven for having ...

A new study by the political science department at the University of Illinois-Chicago explores the depths of rubber-stamping performed by the City Cou...

Rahm Emanuel's fundraising machinery in the Chicago mayoral race was a force of nature. By the day before the election, the Illinois Campaign for Poli...

The City Council was sure to see some serious upheaval this election cycle, and the competitiveness of the fights for alderman is showing in tonight...