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Many waited until this final day.

They included Illinois controller Susana Mendoza, who came to City Hall with chicken and pork tamales in tow, along with 26,000 petitions.

Dr. Lisa Nee brought in 31,000, which she says is a challenge for lesser-known candidates like herself.

It was a lot of hard work convincing that many people to sign for you when you don't have the name recognition

Our ABC7 voter guide has information about the midterms from the races to the polling places.

And next Tuesday, our streaming coverage will begin at 6 p.m. with live updates leading up to Eyewitness News coming your way at 10 o'clock.

Chicago's budget battle taking center stage at City Hall today.

Aldermen are now weighing in on Mayor Johnson's plan to fix the city's finances.

DePaul University transportation expert Joe Sweeterman says the caps will slow down the city's momentum, forcing airlines to rely on larger planes rather than adding more flights to expand capacity.

A major budget clash is erupting at Chicago City Hall Wednesday just as Mayor Brandon Johnson rolls out his $17.6 billion financial plan.

On the line, a $75 million gap that could leave the mayor scrambling for cash.

Here's the story.

Our work isn't finished, and my administration remains committed to addressing misconduct responsibly, bringing justice to those harmed while protecting Chicago taxpayers from continuing to bear the cost of past misconduct.

Our Heather Cherone joins us now from City Hall with more.

So Heather, remind us who former Detective Guevara is and what these lawsuits accused him of doing.

Well, starting in the 1980s, Detective Guevara was assigned to investigate crimes and murders in Humboldt Park.

Well, the mayor vetoed an ordinance that would've required 30 votes from the City Council instead of a simple majority of 26 votes, and that veto was not overridden, but by the slimmest possible margin, just one vote, signaling again that this is a City Council that does not see itself as a rubber stamp and has big questions about how Mayor Johnson is handling the city's finances and its massive debt burden.

All right.

Heather Cherone from City Hall, thanks very much.

Thanks, Nick.

These buildings are bigger than we can see.

There is so much more under our feet than we realized before, where we can see that this tunnel system leads right to the Chicago City Hall, a building that we were told was constructed in 1911.

Of course, holding the fire story, where this is a nod, meaning one of three things, or a combination of them, in my opinion, of course.

One, it's letting them all know which building is from the old world.

Yeah.

That's what Chicago City Hall smells like.

What is that smell?

I don't know.

Pine-Sol minus the, the pine.

Just Sol.

But that's what Chicago City Hall smells like.

I've not been there yet.