Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, April 27, 2017.
City treasurer Kurt Summers decides against running for governor
Chicago city treasurer Kurt Summers won’t run for governor in 2018 and is instead endorsing billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker in the crowded Democratic primary, he announced Wednesday. Summers would have taken some African-American votes away from Chris Kennedy, the son of former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and by endorsing Pritzker he’s “doing the next best thing for the billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune,” according to the Sun-Times. [Sun-Times]
