photo by Daniel Johanson Chicago just wrapped up its historic 2019 municipal election with Lori Lightfoot sweeping all 50 wards against Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, but many on…
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Daniel Johanson (he/him) is a journalist and digital media specialist living in Chicago, Illinois. He serves as Editor-in-Chief at Scapi and in that capacity manages all things content, including writing and editing articles and producing digital content. His most recent work includes the docuseries Heart of a Nation: Tracking Socialism in the Midwest and co-hosting the podcast Scapi Radio. He spends his free time with cats.
photo from the Andre Vasquez for 40th ward facebook page The 40th Ward race between incumbent Pat O’Connor and Andre Vasquez continues to develop, and as it does, a series…
photo from the Lori Lightfoot facebook page We are in that precarious middle time of Chicago politics, after the first election and before the runoff. The mayoral election took a…
photo by Philip Newton/Seattle Opera For a while, the Lyric Opera of Chicago has been producing boundary pushing work under its Lyric Unlimited wing, a production force tasked with expanding…
photo by Avery Studio The Chicago Federation of Musicians has had a busy few months, after the well-publicized strike at Lyric Opera in October, it has been confirmed that the…
As of 10:11, according to AP, local organizer with Reclaim Chicago Andre Vasquez will be facing Incumbent Pat O’Connor in the runoff for the 40th ward. According to Block Club…
photo from the Ald. Edward M Burke facebook page According to AP, it’s very likely that Ed Burke will not face a runoff, even though he faces charges of extortion…
photo from the Lori Lightfoot Facebook page With polls closed at 7:00, according to the Associated Press as of 8:23 PM, 74.5% of precincts are now reporting their results in…
photo by Colin Davis Since the Polar Vortex, there has been a push being made by the organizers of Bring Chicago Home to move their resolution to introduce a one-time 4% tax…
On Tuesday, Chicago local artistic and political heavyweight Chance the Rapper made another endorsement announcement after endorsing Amara Enyia for mayor by posting on twitter about Hilario Dominguez in the…
photo from JB Pritzker’s facebook page Many have wanted to take newly appointed Illinois governor JB Pritzker to task for not being progressive enough now that he has sealed the governor’s seat, but it seems…
photo by Jaysin Trevino Today, the Chicago Tribune published a hit piece on Mayoral Candidate Amara Enyia citing her personal financial issues in a way that was only objective in that it didn’t…