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Nine mayoral candidates are vying to be your pick on Feb. 28. Read our profiles of each contender here.

Johnson’s lengthy list includes“training and promoting” 200 new detectives and launching a “comprehensive efficiency audit” to identify savings, such as streamlining the number of “non-sergeant” police supervisors.

As recent polls show mayoral challenger Paul Vallas surging and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia fading, Garcia is pushing an attack against Vallas that Mayor Lori Lightfoot has used for weeks: that Vallas is a “fake Democrat” who is, in reality, an anti-choice Republican and a threat to women’s…

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Fed up with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s uncollaborative, my-way-or-the-highway approach to the City Council, Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) is endorsing mayoral challenger Brandon Johnson.

The now-retired Chicago cop was named in two legal cases that cost the city more than $5 million. He gave $5,000 to the Vallas campaign.

Among them: the family of the woman chairing the mayor’s reelection campaign fund, contractors that are Lightfoot financial backers and two clout-heavy real estate investors whose children attended the Catholic elementary school where Lightfoot’s daughter was a student.

A City Council subcommittee that was formed almost three years ago to explore how to make amends to the descendants of enslaved people has only met twice. “It’s smoke and mirrors,” state Rep. Kam Buckner said at a candidate forum on the issue.