>>> AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, TODAY MARKS ONE WEEK UNTIL ELECTION DAY.

THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF CITY COUNCIL IS SHAPING UP.

SOME OF THE CITY'S WEALTHIEST BUSINESS LEADERS ARE SENDING BIG BUCKS TO PREVENT POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS FROM SHIFTING THE BALANCE OF POWER AT CITY HALL.

WTTW NEWS REPORTER HEATHER JOINED US NOW.

HE TOOK A LOOK AT SPENDING BY THIS FUND THAT CALLS ITSELF THE GET STUFF DONE PACK, WHICH IS A VERY STRAIGHT TO THE POINT NAME.

>> THIS GROUP WAS CREATED BY THE FORMER MAYOR , AND HAS RAISED $1.7 MILLION, INCLUDING $1 MILLION DIRECTLY FROM ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST PEOPLE IN CHICAGO AND A CLOSE ADVISER TO HIM WHEN HE WAS MAYOR.

THEY HAVE SPENT MORE THAN $600,000 TO SUPPORT 15 -- 14 CANDIDATES.

THAT IS LOPEZ IN THE 25th WARD, AND NICK WARD.

THEY SAY THEY ARE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT THE CANDIDATES AND KEEP PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM FROM SERVING ON CITY COUNCIL.

>> ALSO A POLITICAL -- ALSO SPENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY.

WHO ARE THEY BACKING?

>> THEY HAVE SPENT $325,000.

THEY ARE SUPPORTING 19 CANDIDATES.

MANY OF THESE CANDIDATES ARE ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE GET STUFF DONE PACK.

THEY SHOULD -- THEIR APPLE FIGHT EACH OTHER EFFORTS.

>> ARE PROGRESSIVE GROUPS ABLE TO KEEP UP?

>> BUSINESS LEADERS ARE REALLY NEUTRAL IN THE RACE FOR MAYOR.

SOME ARE LINED UP BEHIND PAUL -- BUT PEOPLE LIKE MICHAEL ARE SITTING THIS ONE OUT.

LETTING THEM TRAIN ALL OF THEIR SPENDING POWER ON THE RACES.

FOCUSING ON THE MAYOR'S RACE, THAT HAS LEFT PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES FOR CITY COUNCIL AT A LITTLE BIT OF A DISADVANTAGE.

>> NOT ONLY IS THIS A BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF CITY COUNCIL, ALSO A BATTLE FOR WHO CONTROLS CHICAGO'S PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT.

HOW'S THAT PLAYING OUT?

>> WHAT IS INTERESTING , JESUS WHO IS ALSO RUNNING FOR MAYOR, HAS BACK A FLEET OF CANDIDATES WHO ARE NOT SOCIALISTS, DO NOT BELONG TO THE DEMOCRAT OF AMERICA.

HE SAYS -- HAS THE BEST SHOT AT BEING HIS HELPERS ON THE CITY COUNCIL, ASSUMING HE WINS.

THAT HAS LEFT THE FUTURE OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT REALLY NOT ONLY FIGHTING EACH OTHER, BUT ALSO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

>> ARE WE TO GO, HEATHER, WAY TOO EARLY TO PANIC.

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