
Chicago Public Schools say they acted in the interest of protecting candidates privacy when they changed a policy of allowing access to nominating papers of persons seeking office in Local School Councils.
Reliable sources within the Chicago Republican Party have told The Bulldog that Ed Burke, the longtime GOP Committeeman for the 47th Ward is out and that David Ratowitz has replaced him. Ratowitz, a Tea Party member, ran an unsuccessful campaign for the fifth Congressional District seat held by Mike Quigley in 2010.
Ravenswood had a higher than city average turnout to the polls last week. Although it supported third party candidates more than the state, it was also overwhelmingly Democratic
Rahm Emanuel had 90,891 tweets in the last six days, probably blowing out all other politicians in Illinois combined, a study by The Bulldog says.
Quinn closed his polling gap in the last two weeks, and Twitter seems to reflect greater interest in his candidacy. However, he still trails Bill Brady in Tweets and followers. Claypool has a wide and widening lead on Berrios. We uncovered additional strength for Ratowitz