Predominant Economic Engine: There are very few local jobs in the 20th ward. In 2011, Chicago Now reported that only 0.2 percent of all jobs in the city fell in the 20th ward. Where People Eat ...

Only one of the remaining candidates in Chicago’s 20th Ward holds down a job as a rapper, but both contenders are falling back on a hip-hop adage as the contest enters its final days ...

3) Economic Justice: New developments that are coming to the 20th Ward, such as ‘the Study’ the new University of Chicago Hotel and the Jewel on 61st Street, are going to bring jobs.

Three candidates are running for Chicago’s 20th Ward alderman in the 2023 municipal elections, taking place February 28. Incumbent alderman Jeanette Taylor, who took office in 2019, will appear on the ...

Kevin Bailey, an engineer who is 20th Ward Democratic committeeman and who ... who is running for a third time and founded an organization called Chicago Against Violence, favors legalizing ...

according to the Chicago Tribune. How Ward Typically Votes: Willie Cochran was first elected alderman of the 20th Ward in 2007 when he won 63 percent of the vote, defeating Arenda Troutman (32 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Embattled Chicago Ald. Willie Cochran (20th Ward), who backed out of a plea deal last week with a federal prosecutors in his corruption case, talked about that decision Wednesday ...

The old schools have sat vacant for 12 years after multiple unsuccessful attempts to sell them. The school district hopes to find buyers who will repurpose the schools as community assets. If that ...

including the most serious charges alleging the alderman shook down businessmen in exchange for his supports on deals in his 20th Ward, after he pleaded guilty in March 2019. A former Chicago ...