Gutierrez plans to boycott Trump’s inauguration and fight any efforts at mass deportation.
Tag: 2016 elections
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Lisa Madigan orders cops to release Laquan McDonald e-mails, and other Chicago news
Also, Trump’s broken promise to early buyers in his Chicago tower.
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Portrait of a west-side polling place
West-side voters share their primary day hopes and fears.
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Urban League voters split on Democratic contest results
Attendees at an election night party in the South Loop react to Hillary Clinton’s string of victories.
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Bernie Sanders’s Illinois delegation is optimistic in the Illinois primary’s final hours
“I’ve never seen movement in the polls like this,” says Clem Balanoff, the Illinois director for Sanders’s campaign.
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A brief visual history of black voter mobilization in Chicago
Check out these archival photos of moments in the history of black voter mobilization in Chicago.
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The case against vote-shaming the black community
During election time, thinly veiled threats are used to keep the black community in line.
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Twenty Chicago-area residents who support Donald Trump
Supporters and protesters at Friday night’s rally were separated by more than just a few city blocks.
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Which Democrat would make a better president for black Chicagoans? Two delegates debate.
A Clinton supporter and a Sanders supporter lobby for their candidates.
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The criminal-justice crusade of Kim Foxx
The candidate’s plan to transform the Cook County state’s attorney’s office starts with lessons from her childhood in Cabrini Green.
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Is Madigan’s Democratic opponent a Rauner plant?
Jason Gonzales says no, but we follow the money.
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Willie Wilson believes he’s running for president. Why doesn’t anyone else?
The erstwhile mayoral candidate tries his hand at national politics.
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In Illinois’s Democratic primaries, it’s the governor, stupid
Duh, challengers should be running against the most unpopular politician in Chicago not named Rahm.
