The machine is on the run: How progressives won in Chicago's elections.

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 1:59 p.m.

Journalist Miles Kampf-Lassin reports on the progressive wave that broke big in Chicago's 2019 elections - backed by the work of social movements and local activists, left candidates campaigning on working class policies challenged the power of neoliberal machine politics, maybe pointing towards a strategy for building electoral power for the people. Miles wrote the In These Times cover story Chicago's Political Revolution.