On April 25, the Seventh Circuit upheld Chicago’s ballot access, that candidates for citywide office need 12,500 signatures. Other restrictions are that the signatures must be gathered within 90 days and that no one can sign for more than one candidate for a particular office.
Chicago holds non-partisan elections for its own offices. Here is the 15-page decision in Stone v Board of Election Commissioners, 13-2733.
One more DISASTER opinion –
collects the now standard JUNK unequal cases and puts them in an equal ballot access case.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V — which also would have equal ballot access tests.