{"id":9248,"date":"2025-05-15T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/evanston-mayor-announces-run-for-schakowskys-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:20:25","slug":"evanston-mayor-announces-run-for-schakowskys-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/evanston-mayor-announces-run-for-schakowskys-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Evanston mayor announces run for Schakowsky\u2019s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Biss (D), the mayor of Evanston, Ill., launched a campaign Thursday to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, adding another candidate to the race to succeed the longtime incumbent.&nbsp; Biss, who has served as mayor of the Chicago suburb since 2021, said in a video that he decided to run because the country needs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5301696-evanston-mayor-daniel-biss-congress-campaign\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Biss (D), the mayor of Evanston, Ill., launched a campaign Thursday to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, adding another candidate to the race to succeed the longtime incumbent.&nbsp; Biss, who has served as mayor of the Chicago suburb since 2021, said in a video that he decided to run because the country needs&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}