Backed by Trade Unions, Alexi Giannoulias Launches Campaign for Chicago Mayor
Reports the mayoral launch, labor support signals, initial pledges, campaign cash and earlier record questions.
Source Library: Reporting and Records
This is a selective, critical archive, not a comprehensive collection of everything published about Alexi Giannoulias. Its 44 preserved records were chosen for public relevance, evidentiary value, source accountability or material contrary/limiting evidence. Inclusion does not endorse a publisher’s framing or establish that every assertion in an article is true.
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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announces run for Chicago mayor
Covers the launch and field and summarizes Broadway Bank, Bright Start and other background likely to recur in the campaign.
Alexi Giannoulias: Wrong for Chicago
A clearly labeled opinion arguing against Giannoulias by combining banking, investment, licensing and donor criticisms.
Illinois official got more than $300K from trucking industry while his agency gave illegal licenses
Connects finance records with the federal CDL review; timing warrants scrutiny but does not prove influence, and the office disputed the characterization.
IDOT: Nearly 20% of Illinois commercial driver's licenses issued illegally
Reports federal sample findings, threatened funding consequences and the state response; the sample rate is not an adjudicated statewide rate.
Feds expand non-domiciled CDL crackdown to Illinois
Covers the federal Illinois review, sampled violations, corrective timetable and potential funding penalty.
Some advocates remain skeptical about Illinois ban on book bans
Describes the library-grant law, advocates’ funding/local-control concerns and the measure’s stated purpose.
Secretary of state candidates spar over ethics issues
Covers rivals’ criticism of Broadway Bank and Bright Start and Giannoulias’s response about his treasurer record and the bank’s community role.
Democrat Valencia airing first TV ad in Illinois secretary of state race, taking potshots at primary rival Giannoulias
Reports Valencia’s ad linking Giannoulias to a 2016 Trump-unity op-ed and earlier praise for Republican Tom Cross, with electoral context.
As Cook County Democratic slating nears, secretary of state candidate Alexi Giannoulias questioned about past support of a Republican for treasurer
Examines whether 2014 praise amounted to endorsing Tom Cross and records Giannoulias’s later acknowledgment and apology for the appearance.
Let's all help our president-elect unify a divided America
Giannoulias’s post-election column urged Americans to help President-elect Donald Trump unify the country; later opponents cited it.
Broadway Bank officers, FDIC settle lawsuit for $5 million
Reports a settlement of claims over specified loans; the official FDIC index confirms a settlement record, but inaccessible agreement terms are not approved factual copy. The cited court opinion’s defendant list does not include Giannoulias.
Feds: Loans Took Down Giannoulias Family Bank
Summarizes the OIG’s findings on aggressive real-estate lending, weak controls, funding concentration and estimated insurance-fund loss.
Mark Kirk campaign ads say Alexi Giannoulias lost $73 million in our kids' college savings
Rates the simplified $73 million campaign claim Half True and explains gross loss, settlement and shared responsibility.
Giannoulias touts judgment, passes the buck
Contrasts claims of financial judgment with explanations that others handled several decisions later used against him.
Kirk, Giannoulias Misstate Facts in Debate
Finds misstatements by both candidates and documents inconsistent descriptions of when Giannoulias stopped working at Broadway Bank.
Giannoulias, Kirk spar on 'mob' loans
Covers the debate exchange over bank loans and both campaigns’ framing of Giannoulias’s role.
Mark Kirk for Senate
The editorial board endorses Kirk and criticizes Giannoulias’s policy specificity and record; this is institutional opinion, not an adjudication.
Alexi Giannoulias
Reports allegations that a Republican tracker was removed from a fundraiser and a later confrontation occurred; it does not show Giannoulias ordered either act.
Politics at the podium just part of the plan or really party crashing?
Reports organizers’ claim that politicians were not invited to speak at a charity event and frames Giannoulias’s prepared remarks as a judgment issue.
Giannoulias: Broadway Bank Will Likely Fail
Reports Giannoulias’s acknowledgment that Broadway Bank would likely fail, its capital problem and political responses.
The man who would be senator
Examines biography, Bright Start, the SUV, bank borrowers and Rezko-related context with criticism and response.
Katehi: Nothing inappropriate in Illinois admissions inquiry
Summarizes an inquiry in which a campaign adviser forwarded applicant information; it does not establish that Giannoulias directed or knew of the request.
Illinois Treasurer Candidates Debate
Records Christine Radogno’s criticism of bank loans and Giannoulias’s response that the bank had done nothing wrong.
Candidate for IL Treasurer to answer questions about mob ties
Reports early campaign questions about loans to a borrower the outlet described as having organized-crime/illegal-gambling associations; attribute those descriptions.