By June 1983, the Council Wars had so effectively entered Chicago’s political vocabulary that comedian Aaron Freeman could make a successful cabaret show of the City Hall squabbles.

There was no way the white-dominated Chicago City Council would concede power to a black man, mayor or not. So, the infamous Council Wars were on, as an all-white majority of 29 aldermen ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot has it easy with the Chicago City Council compared to what Harold Washington inherited when he took office in 1983, but as aldermen continue to flex their ...

In the Chicago City Council of recent vintage, meetings were generally calm and predictable. The mayor lightly banged the gavel to keep decorum. Aldermen played their roles, mostly shifting in thei… ...

CHICAGO — A former prominent member of the Chicago City Council has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in a scheme to help a lawyer foil the Internal Revenue Service. Edward Vrdolyak (ver-DOH’-lee ...

In 1983, Washington turned Chicago politics on its ear, beating Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley to become the city’s first black mayor. ... In Chicago, Council Wars is the stuff of local legend.

Chicago is forever stuck being the Second City, which is annoying. But at least New York is far away, and sometimes we can forget it. Cook County is worse off. The county has always played the ...

Lori Lightfoot denounced the City Council as corrupt, then turned around and shamed all 50 members, who were seated behind her, into joining the cheering crowd in a standing ovation for reform.

And Johnson is not entirely wrong. Since 1995, Chicago’s mayor has had the sole authority to appoint board members, who then vote on the school district’s CEO, without City Council input.

WE SPENT THE DAY in the Chicago City Council meeting, where there was a lot of drama. ... “Maybe the acrimony didn’t rival the ‘Council Wars’ power struggle of the 1980s, ...

Chicago and the City Council get all the attention. Bottom line, we’re usually just a hell of a lot more interesting. But the potential for government waste, corruption, and shenanigans is just ...