CHICAGO Headlines
Former aldermanic candidate wins $1.4M in defamation suit over campaign mailers South Side Ald. Lamont Robinson’s campaign and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s 4th Ward Democratic Organization are on the hook for $1.475 million in punitive damages over what a Cook County jury found were defamatory mailers and text messages during the 2023 aldermanic campaign. Ebony Lucas, a real estate attorney who lost in the first round of the aldermanic elections in the ward that includes Hyde Park, filed suit in December 2023 over what she described as a “coordinated smear campaign” alleging she had a series of unpaid liens and fines related to her business and violations of the city’s landlord tenant ordinance. READ MORE (EDITORIAL - It needs to be stopped nationwide.) ***** 120 Job Corps campuses across the country will be “paused” by the Department of Labor on June 30. It is estimated that this shutdown will affect 50,000 students nationwide. Per Nevada U.S. Senator Jack...