Three-term incumbent East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland pulled ahead of his challenger North Township Trustee Adrian Santos Tuesday night in a closely fought race for the Democratic nomination for the mayor’s office that pitted two former political allies against one another for control of the city’s future.
A Democratic at-large East Chicago City Council candidate successfully challenged his removal from the primary ballot in Lake Superior Court late last month after facing allegations he voted as a Republican in the 2020 primary.
A four-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit of the Court of Appeals in Chicago has upheld a decision to return the firefighters to their preferred schedule of 24 hours on