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Dart: Video Poking Fun At Rahm All In Good Fun
CHICAGO (CBS) - There are some bad vibes already in the race for mayor of Chicago. A little rough stuff Wednesday on the Internet. It’s about Rahm Emanuel, courtesy of one of his opponents: Cook County...
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Obama In Chicago To Campaign For Giannoulias
CHICAGO (AP) – Even in President Barack Obama’s hometown, they had hoped for more. Obama will be stumping for Senate candidate and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias on Thursday in Chicago, a city...
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BGA’s Shaw: Gov Debate Lacked Substance
CHICAGO (WBBM) — Following the latest debate in the race for Illinois governor, the head of a civic watchdog group says there wasn’t much substance from either candidate on key issues facing the state....
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Local Ministers Offered Cash To Support Scott Lee Cohen
CHICAGO (CBS) – Asking for political support happens all the time. Trying to buy it is something else. Some Chicago area ministers say that’s what happened at a meeting earlier this week with...
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Walter’s Perspective: Expensive Campaign Ads
CHICAGO (CBS) – The politicians are spending more money on their midterm campaigns than has ever been spent before, most of it to buy more time on television, to sling more mud and tell more lies than...
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Race For Obscure Post Tests Chicago-Style Politics
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) – Far down the ballot for Tuesday’s election in Cook County — way past the candidates running for Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and the governor’s job once...
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Candidates In Final Stretch Of Push For Votes
CHICAGO (CBS) – It’s down to the wire for many of the candidates who are in the final stretch of the weekend push to get to votes. CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports candidates are campaigning and talking to...
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Senate, Gubernatorial Races Down To Wire
UPDATED 11/1/10 9:52 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS/WBBM) - The races for governor and the U.S. Senate are going down to the wire Monday, as candidates from both sides make the most of their last day to campaign....
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Watchdog Group Sees Problems With Governor Recall
CHICAGO (WBBM) — Chicago’s Better Government Association has nothing against letting voters recall a governor, but the executive director says the proposal now on the ballot is cumbersome and...
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Peraica To File Lawsuit Over Weekend Arrest
MCCOOK (WBBM) — Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica says he plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the Village of McCook–because Peraica says he was falsely arrested there over the weekend and...
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Emanuel Campaign Releases First TV Spot
CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago for Rahm Emanuel has released its first TV spot online Sunday. It will begin airing in Chicago on Monday, November 15. You can watch it here. Transcript: Chicago is a great city...
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Bill Clinton To Stump For Rahm Emanuel
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in support of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s bid for Chicago mayor. Emanuel campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Sunday that...
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Braun Campaigns For Mayor At Meeks’ Church
CHICAGO (AP) ― Chicago mayoral candidate and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has appeared at a church on the city’s South Side. On Sunday, Braun spoke at former opponent the Rev. James Meeks’...
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Mayoral Candidates Make Final Push For Votes
UPDATED 02/21/11 11:32 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – The race for mayor is down to the home stretch, with polls set to open in less than 24 hours. As CBS 2′s Susanna Song and Newsradio 780′s Mary Frances...
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Keys To Rahm Emanuel’s Decisive Victory
CHICAGO (CBS) – Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel succeeded in the mayoral race by connecting with people across the city, and raising money far in excess of any of his opponents, explains CBS 2 Chief...
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Cappleman To Replace Shiller In Uptown’s 46th
CHICAGO (CBS) – Social worker James Cappleman will succeed 24-year veteran Ald. Helen Shiller to represent the Uptown neighborhood’s 46th Ward in the City council. With all precincts reporting,...
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Obama Takes In $2 Million At Fundraisers
UPDATED 04/15/11 11:31 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS/WBBM) – President Barack Obama headed back to Washington Friday, after a big night on the town to kick off his reelection campaign. As CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez...
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Emanuel Attends Fund-Raiser To Help Retire Rival’s Debt
CHICAGO (CBS) — Guess who’s coming to dinner—or, at least cocktails? Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel will join Carol Moseley Braun as she holds a fundraiser to pay off her campaign debt on Thursday night....
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Gary Public Schools Campaigning To Get Kids Back
GARY, Ind. (CBS) — There’s a battle brewing over public education in Gary, Indiana. Where more than seven-thousand children in recent years have left the public school and five hundred more are expect...
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Halvorson To Run Against Jesse Jackson Jr.
(CBS) – Former Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson is set to formally announce she will run against Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. in the Democratic primary in the 2nd District next year. It would be the...
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