* I don’t know if anybody cares or not, but the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners sent out a list of candidates who filed this morning. Rahm Emanuel was the only major candidate who filed for mayor. And, so far 124 candidates have filed to run in the city’s 50 wards. Click here to see the list. And the Tribune has a brief look at some of the contested races. Click here for that.

I was in the 4th Ward shortly before the election and there were people all over the place with clipboards attempting to get folks onto the ballot.

…Adding… Greg Hinz…

No one yet has filed either for city treasurer or clerk. But a total of 124 candidates is running for alderman, an average of about two and a half for each of the city’s 50 wards, but less than 167 that filed first thing in 2011.

In nine wards that in general are represented by entrenched incumbents, only the incumbent filed. Those are the 12th, 13th, 14th, 30th, 32nd, 40th 42nd, 48th and 50th wards.

No incumbent filed in three wards. Those are the 2nd, in which the current alderman, Fioretti, is running for mayor; and the 36th and 38th wards. Incumbent 38th Ward Ald. Tim Cullerton is retiring, but neighboring Ald. Nicholas Sposato is running in the 36th after his ward was changed very substantially in reapportionment.

In a couple of other aldermanic notes of interest, Patrick Daley Thompson, grandson of Mayor Richard J. Daley and nephew of Mayor Richard M. Daley, filed to run in the family’s 11th Ward Bridgeport fiefdom, as expected. And Lincoln Park Ald. Michele Smith, 43rd, drew two challengers with the possibility of more to come.