Tracking The City Council Elections

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Sep 29, 2010 3:40PM

With all the focus on the Mayoral race, it's easy to forget that all 50 seats in the City Council are up for voting next February and, with several retirements coming, we could be looking at a huge turnover in aldermen to go along with a new mayor. Fortunately, the folks at Progress Illinois, who have that handy Mayoral candidate tracker, have added a new feature allowing voters to track the aldermanic races as well. Their spreadsheet lists the candidates by ward and the stage of each candidate's campaign. The most active seat? That would be Ald. Brian Doherty's seat (41st Ward) as he's running for state senate. The 46th Ward, being vacated by Ald. Helen Shiller, also has a high number of challengers already as does Ald. Vi Daley's spot (43rd).