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What Chicago’s North Side business owners need to stay vibrant
(Flickr/Senor Codo) Devon Avenue is home to a host of cultures that shape its economy. February ‘s 2011 municipal election is just around the corner.
Emanuel says voters aren’t focused on his residency
(WBEZ/Sam Hudzik) Emanuel meets employees at a Chicago factory, whose owner said the former congressman helped keep the jobs in the city. Rahm Emanuel is responding to objections filed with the Chicago election board against his candidacy.
WATCH: Rahm Releases A New Ad On Jobs
Though it’s still early in the race for Chicago’s next mayor, Rahm Emanuel is already taking advantage of his massive war chest. The former White House Chief of Staff had more than $1 million in his federal campaign fund at the end of September, and has been aggressively raising funds for his mayoral candidacy since then.
More challenges to Emanuel’s Chicago residency
CHICAGO – A longtime Chicago election attorney joined the effort Friday to push mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel off the February ballot over his residency status, even as Emanuel’s supporters say the challenges are a frivolous distraction. Attorney Burt Odelson filed a petition claiming Emanuel can’t run for mayor because he hasn’t lived in Chicago for the year leading up to the election, as the law requires.
Rahm Emanuel’s Residency Continues To Be An Issue In Chicago Mayoral Race
CHICAGO — As he travels about the city, assuring Chicagoans that he is one of them, Rahm Emanuel must be asking himself why he just didn’t leave his house vacant when he went off to work in the White House. Or rent it to a buddy or a relative.
PHOTOS: Meet The Candidates For Chicago Mayor
We knew there were a lot of people considering mayoral bids, but we did not expect 20 candidates. Well, hopefully Chicagoans like having many options.
Emanuel not the only mayoral hopeful facing residency issue
Rahm Emanuel’s campaign this week defended the candidate against allegations he is ineligible to run for Chicago mayor because he’s been living in Washington, DC, for the past two years. But the ex-White House chief of staff is not the only mayoral hopeful with a potential residency problem.
Illinois Green Party Remains Optimistic Despite Losses At The Polls
Green Party candidate Jeremy Karpen says that as he was greeting voters outside his Logan Square polling place on Election Day, he watched the same scenario time and again. A campaign worker for 39th District state rep Toni Berrios, whom Karpen was trying to unseat, would pull a voter aside, greet him familiarly in Spanish, hand him a palm card .
Radio host: Sharpton visit ‘political’
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A local radio host is calling Rev. Al Sharpton’s visit to Indianapolis on Wednesday politically-motivated.
Both Bean and Walsh head to D.C.
The 8th congressional district race remains undecided, but both candidates in the race say they’re heading to Washington D.C. U.S.