Lou's List of Potential Chicago Mayor Candidates [Updated 9/8/2010 12:15pm]

• Tony Preckwinkle - Dem nominee and shoe in for Cook County Board President
• Miguel DelValle - Cook County Clerk
• Luis Guttierrez - 4th district U.S. Congressman since 1993
• Manny Flores - Chairman of Illinois Commerce Comission, frmr 1st Ward Alderman
• Jesse Jackson - you know him
• Jesse Jackson Jr. - 2nd district Congressman since 1995
• Bobby Rush (after a hesitaition he said no) - 1st district Congressman since 1993
• Toni Berrios - [threw in a Latina] 39th district IL-House of Representatives
• Rahm Emanuel - White House Chief of Staff, former 5th district Congressman
• Forrest Claypool - Cook County Commissioner former Daley Chief of Staff
• Tony Peraica - Cook County Commissioner 
• Dorothy Brown - Cook County Circuit Court Clerk
• Mike Quigley - 5th District Congressman
• Emil Jones - recently retired President of the Illinois Senate
• Tamie Duckworth - Assistant Secretary Dept. of Veteran Affairs (Nat'l Position)
• David Hoffman - ex-Inspector General
• Tom Dart - Cook County sheriff
• James Houlihan - Cook County assessor
• James Meeks - 15th District IL-State Senator 
• Bob Fioretti - 2nd Ward alderman (will decide in by Sept. 18th)
• Sandi Jackson - 7th Ward alderman (Jesse Jr.'s wife)
• Scott Waguespack - 32nd Ward alderman
• Tom Allen - 38th Ward alderman
• Brendan Reilly - 42nd Ward alderman
• Ricky Munoz - 32nd Ward alderman
• Leslie Hariston - 5th Ward alderman
• Ed Burke - 14th Ward alderman
• Jonathan Jackson - Jesse Jackson's other son
• Bridget Gainer - Cook County Commissioner
• and William "Dock" Walls III (yes - confirmed)
• Walter Burnett - 27th Ward amderman
• Gery Chico - City Colleges Board Chairman
• Danny Davis - 7th District U.S. Congressman since 1997
• Ron Huberman - City Schools Cheif
• Lisa Madigan - Attorney General
• Terry Peterson - former alderman
• Mike Quigley - 5th district U.S. Congressman
• Tom Tunney - 44th Ward alderman
• Valerie Jarrett - (will not run, or be Chief of Staff if Rahm runs) 2nd Assistant to the President
• Carol Mosley Braun - U.S. Senator of IL from 19931999

Chicago electorate is 40% Black, 38% White, 17% Latino, 5% Asian

Election Day is Febuary 22nd, 2011

sources:

Mick Dumke -  article

Fox Chicago - article

Chicago Public Media - post