Chicago Mayor Daley elected to 6th term
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Mayor Richard M. Daley won a sixth term Tuesday, overcoming a City Hall corruption scandal and putting himself on course to eclipse his legendary father's record as the city's longest-serving mayor.
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Retired Gen. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia&#39;s sixth president on Wednesday after winning the country&#39;s first-ever direct elections for head of state last month.
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Chicago acquired Adewale Ogunleye from the Dolphins on Saturday, giving him a lucrative six-year, $33.4 million deal that included a $15 million signing bonus.
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Former Mayor Wellington Webb formally announced his candidacy Thursday to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley will be on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor if voters Tuesday give him a sixth term despite a City Hall corruption scandal.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley has made the nurturing of Chicagoâs fledgling fashion industry one of his pet projects.
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday signed a law moving up the state's primary to Feb. 5, a move certain to help Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the state's junior senator.
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Mayor Richard Daley hasn't said if he will seek re-election, but if he does, he has an opponent: the Cook County Circuit Court clerk.
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The convictions of Mayor Richard M. Daley&#039;s former patronage chief and three other one-time officials on federal charges are guaranteed to cast a shadow over next year&#039;s election, experts say.
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The transit union boss who led a strike that paralyzed New York City for 60 hours at the height of last year's Christmas shopping season has been re-elected, union officials said Friday.
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Despite a City Hall corruption scandal, Mayor Richard M. Daley sought a sixth term Tuesday in a re-election campaign that could put him on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor.
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Pat O'Connor's guy didn't win. But as he sat in the Billy Goat tavern in downtown Chicago on Wednesday afternoon, the phone company worker was just glad that the whole thing was over, that this year's presidential election didn't drag on three dozen days like it did four years ago.
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A six-term incumbent congressman emerged Saturday as the apparent winner of a hotly contested primary after officials finished counting more than 11,000 provisional ballots.
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A millionaire soccer boss from Argentina's center-right opposition was elected mayor of Buenos Aires in a run-off vote on Sunday, defeating a candidate backed by President Nestor Kirchner.
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DUBLIN -- Ireland elected its first black mayor yesterday, the latest sign of how immigration is rapidly changing this once all-white nation.
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Washington voters have the opportunity to make sweeping changes in District leadership for the first time in a decade, taking the first step toward selecting a new mayor and council chairman and at least three new council members in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 16--Chicago should undertake a communitywide campaign to become the nation's most advanced digital city, a mayor's advisory committee report urged Friday.