Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."
MARK KONKOL: Feds did Chicago voters a favor charging Ald. Burke, leaking indictment money trail to Preckwinkle before mayoral election.
Mark Konkol: As Chicago mayor election nears, Bill Daley's campaign doesn't want you to hear him trash talk Rahm Emanuel.
MARK KONKOL: Imagine if Chicago wasn't a racist city ruled by rich, white guys.
Pride Cleaners owner Jimmy Vilma wants mayor candidates to "show us a plan" with specifics for revitalizing South Side neighborhoods.
Off-the-record campaign chats, dodging reporter questions and well-timed endorsements help candidates with clout control election narrative.
Chicago has two kinds of mayoral candidates: Proponents of the political status-quo and everyone else.
OPINION: Reporting mayoral frontrunners based on election stats and politically funded polls slants news and favors clout-heavy candidates.
A Trump-era homage to Mike Royko’s classic column "Mary and Joe, A Christmas Story," published 50 years ago on Dec. 19, 1967.
