In a few hours the polls will open in Chicago. City voters will vote for mayor, city treasurer, and city clerk, as well as 50 alderman.
The mayoral incumbent, Richard M. Daley, is considered a lock for re-election.
As for the aldermanic races, these have national implications as organized labor is trying to use whatever strength it has left to unseat aldermen who didn't vote their way on the big-box "living wage" ordinance.
The sign pictured above was taken on the front lawn of a supporter of Ald. Brian Doherty a few miles from my home. In a city that prides itself on diversity, somehow Chicago manages to have just one Republican alderman, Doherty.
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