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Chicago Tribune: Shadow of Michael Madigan looms in fight for 23rd Ward alderman
It’s a political tale as old as the Southwest Side bungalow belt, filled with alliances made and broken, and the specter of indicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan hanging over the whole affair.
As with many ward-level scrapes, nobody can agree on who started what and why. But the falling-out is getting a public airing against the backdrop of the looming city elections.
Crain's Chicago Business: Editorial: The Bears' stadium-campus subsidy play is a nonstarter
WTTW: Surveillance of Indicted Ald. Carrie Austin Shows She’s Healthy Enough to Stand Trial: Feds
Indicted Ald. Carrie Austin (34th Ward) is healthy enough to stand trial on charges that she accepted bribes from a developer and lied to FBI agents and there is no evidence a trial would amount to a death sentence as she has said, federal prosecutors asserted Friday.
Surveillance conducted by FBI agents in recent weeks shows Austin is “not gravely ill,” but has a busy schedule and is “alert, lucid and responsive” and able to move about on her own without assistance, representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois told the judge overseeing the criminal case against the second-longest serving member of the Chicago City Council.
The Center Square: Central Illinois company's workers vote to oust union
Another group of workers in Illinois have rallied and voted to kick a union out of their workplace.
Workers at Tri-State Asphalt in Morris voted to cut ties with Teamsters Local 179. The vote – conducted by the National Labor Relations Board Region 25 – was one-sided, with 80% of the employees voting to reject the union.