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This wasn’t the speech Jose Wilson had hoped to provide after making a run for Democratic committeeperson in Chicago’s 1st Ward.
Two months earlier than votes had been solid within the March major, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners booted Wilson from the poll. Although Wilson had turned in almost 1,700 signatures on his nominating petitions — knocking on doorways for weeks final fall and winter — one in every of his rivals torpedoed Wilson’s candidacy by efficiently difficult sufficient of these signatures to maintain him off the poll.
And so, at a sparsely attended January listening to inside a sterile authorities convention room, Wilson rose to ship his final speech of the race, directing his frustration at a cutthroat Illinois balloting course of a Tribune investigation discovered is overly difficult, limits voters’ selections and contributes to corruption that plagues authorities all through the state.
“I don’t assume it’s honest,” Wilson advised election board members. “I don’t assume it’s clear. I don’t assume it’s clear.”
It’s, nonetheless, a system firmly entrenched in Illinois, one which makes it more durable for individuals to qualify for the poll than in lots of states and simpler to get kicked off.
Learn the complete story from the Tribune’s Joe Mahr.
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Amid false claims, Illinois elections officers push integrity, transparency — and perhaps physique armor
The roughly 100 women and men who oversee elections in Illinois — each Democrats and Republicans — have launched a voter integrity marketing campaign to assist debunk falsehoods being fed largely by lies from former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 election was stolen.
However even because the elections officers open their places of work for excursions and make themselves out there for questions in regards to the voting course of and the gear they’re utilizing to rely ballots for the Nov. 5 election, the pinnacle of their state affiliation stated he’s contemplating buying physique armor amid fears the conspiracy theories will flip bodily.
Lack of jail can be newest blow to downstate Lincoln, a city christened with watermelon juice by Previous Abe himself
Simply exterior the boundaries of town of Lincoln, the one metropolis within the nation named for Abraham Lincoln earlier than he grew to become president, sits the Logan Correctional Middle, a multi-level safety jail for ladies.
The prospect of shedding Logan and the almost 500 jobs it gives can be the newest blow to a city of somewhat greater than 13,000 residents that lately has misplaced quite a few native establishments, together with two schools and a state developmental middle.
Valparaiso cop joins particular job drive, however on-the-job harassment forces her out. ‘It was an excessive amount of.’
Regardless of the Valparaiso Police officer anticipated when she walked right into a room for an interview with the Porter County Multi-Enforcement Group, it wasn’t what she bought.
The officers conducting the interview, representing police departments from all through the county, requested her whom she would kill; have sexual relations with, although her interviewers used an expletive; and marry if given the selection between the sheriff and the Valparaiso and Portage police chiefs.
From drag reveals to makeshift breakfast buffets and a rooster costume, spectators carry power to Chicago Marathon
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When the primary wave of runners handed North Sheridan and West Diversey round 8 a.m. Sunday, the sometimes sleepy sidewalks had been lined with spectators who bought to see newly minted world-record-holder Ruth Chepngetich dash by.
With new COVID pressure XEC spreading, Chicago well being consultants urge up-to-date vaccination
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As 7 constitution faculties plan to shut, Chicago Lecturers Union asks district to step in
1000’s of scholars and a whole bunch of lecturers had been left in a lurch Wednesday after the Acero Constitution Colleges Board of Administrators voted unanimously to shut seven of Acero’s 15 faculties, the newest flip of occasions throughout per week of turmoil for Chicago Public Colleges.
Patrons who bought $8M Naperville mansion for file worth to promote portion of website to create 4 new homesites
The patrons who late final yr paid what at the moment was reported to be a DuPage County residential gross sales file quantity of $8.076 million for a 9,299-square-foot Naperville mansion now have approval to unload the easternmost 0.47-acre portion of the unique acre-sized website to create 4 new homesites containing mansions beginning at asking costs of $3 million.
Caleb Williams was in complete management, however the Chicago Bears weren’t shocked. Brad Biggs’ 10 ideas on a giant win in London.
The lengthy flight dwelling will probably be a easy one after the Bears put collectively a whole effort, dismantling the Jacksonville Jaguars 35-16 on Sunday to win their third consecutive recreation for the primary time for the reason that finish of the 2020 season.
Listed here are 10 ideas on the Week 6 victory at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Chicago Blackhawks star Connor Bedard making an attempt to shed his nothing-but-hockey picture: ‘I’m not on the ice all day’
The Hawks are a minimum of somewhat involved about Bedard’s long-term bodily and psychological endurance. Imagine it or not, Bedard will get it.
“I imply, I’m not on the ice all day,” the 19-year-old star advised the Tribune. “I take plenty of pleasure in caring for my physique and making an attempt to really feel the very best I can each recreation. That’s No. 1 within the season.”
A soccer fan’s Valhalla: Purple Grange christened Memorial Stadium 100 years in the past and have become an Illini legend
100 years in the past this week, Purple Grange took the opening kickoff of the Illinois-Michigan soccer recreation on the Combating Illini’s 5-yard line and zigzagged by 11 pissed off defenders to attain a landing, giving 65,000 followers a down fee on the joys present they had been anticipating once they headed to Champaign’s new stadium from all instructions.
Biblioracle: John A. Williams deserves to be within the literary canon. Right here’s why.
John Warner desires to speak in regards to the literary canon, the texts which have been judged to be worthwhile and enduring and subsequently deserving of particular standing in our tradition.
He additionally desires to speak in regards to the writing of John A. Williams.
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