Video: Underdogs, Money, and Making Art: Medill Reports’ Electioncast 2015
In Medill News Service’s Election 2015 video team’s second update, Abigail Hodgson and Kira Boyd tell us about underdogs, campaign spending and how Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has inspired the creative community throughout Chicago.
Chicago Aldermanic Election Results 2015
By Steven Chambers and Meghan Tribe
Only 28% of registered voters cast ballots by late afternoon on Tuesday
By Anne Arntson and Jia You Preliminary turnout for the Chicago mayoral election was 28 percent of registered voters as of 4 p.m. on Tuesday, including early voting and absentee ballots that came in through Saturday. Dick Simpson, a political science professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, and a former alderman, said he believed […]
Campaign advertising seeks to sway minds up to the last minute
By John Rosin Campaign advertisements unabashedly seek to sway your mind as they glorify candidates, nudge opinions and try to cinch the outcome of an election. The election between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia marks the first mayoral runoff for Chicago, and the two candidates produced a downpour of different kinds of endorsements […]
VIDEO: Zen: Practice for Awakening
By Yining Zhou Zen is by no means a new concept in the U.S., but it still seems mysterious. What indeed is Zen in the American cultural context? How has it blended into local communities? Medill’s Yining Zhou visits several Zen practitioners, trying to find answers.
Video: West Side after-school program sends kids to college
By Thomas Yau Neighborhoods on Chicago’s West Side are no stranger to violence, poverty and failing schools, but in Austin, an after-school program is able to give the young people there a chance to change their lives.
VIDEO: Aldermanic candidate Rafael Lopez promises change to 15th Ward
By Isabella Szabolcs Eighteen of Chicago’s 50 wards have runoff elections for alderman. The predominately Hispanic 15th ward has two Hispanic candidate’s running for aldermanic positions. One candidate, Rafael Lopez, is promising to bring needed changes to the ward. Isabella Szabolcs has more on the story.
Social media roundup: runoff day oddities
By Sean Froelich Voter turnout was dismal in the general election in February. And with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia forced into a runoff election, many in Chicago took rather creative approaches to get voters to the polls this time. Here are some examples, and some other oddities seen around […]
Garcia makes last minute push to get voters out
by Adriana Cargill With two hours left to go, voters this afternoon reported empty polling stations and low turnout in Chicago’s first runoff mayoral election. Turnout could prove critical to the outcome of this election, especially for the grass-roots campaign of Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, who has cast himself as a man who […]
Gearing up for the runoff: Medill Report’s Electioncast 2015
The Medill News Service’s Election 2015 video team is hosting three separate electioncasts today. In our first update, Lukas Voss and Empriss Campbell tell us about the candidates’ schedules, continuing reaction to last week’s controversial mayoral debate, high early voting turnout and how the 15th Ward’s new demographic landscape impacts the aldermanic race.