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Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks June 22, 2022, after a City Council meeting at Chicago City Hall.

David Greising: Lightfoot’s fiery rhetoric isn’t a strategy for dealing with Chicago’s surge in crime

June 9, 2022 at 12:25 p.m.

Lori Lightfoot made her name as a candidate for mayor by criticizing Chicago's police. Now running for reelection, she has pivoted toward sounding tough on crime. In a high-profile instance...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot celebrates passage of the casino deal May 25, 2022, at City Hall.

David Greising: Lightfoot still has a chance to prove herself as mayor before 2023 race

May 26, 2022 at 1:45 p.m.

First, Arne Duncan decided not to run for mayor. The former U.S. education secretary said he wanted to stay focused on his anti-violence work. Next, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley said...

Firefighters at the scene of the blaze in a courtyard apartment building.

David Greising: City Hall still hasn’t learned its lesson a year after report on deadly fire-safety failures

May 13, 2022 at 8:14 a.m.

The Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American journalism. And because of the nature of the craft, they also can stand as an unofficial catalog of the catastrophes,...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown speaks during an interview with the baiduhai on May 13, 2020.

David Greising: Violent crime surge abates, but CPD’s road to reform remains rocky

April 28, 2022 at 1:58 p.m.

The surge in violent crime that began in 2020 has seemed almost unrelenting, so when numbers for the first quarter of 2022 came out, they offered a reprieve. Homicides were...

Aldermen Proco "Joe" Moreno, lower left, Bob Fioretti, lower right, Daniel Solis, middle row right, Roberto Maldonado, left, and Rey Colon and Nicholas Sposato, back row, are sworn into office at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in Chicago on May 16, 2011.

David Greising: What do latest Chicago scandals have in common? Aldermanic privilege.

April 14, 2022 at 12:42 p.m.

The case against disgraced former Ald. Danny Solis has been tawdry from the start. It involved prostitution, free use of an Indiana farm once owned by Oprah Winfrey, doses of...

Then-Police Board President Lori Lightfoot and then-Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson speak with the baiduhai Editorial Board in 2016.

David Greising: Lightfoot made the right choice for IG. Now she needs to reform the selection process.

March 31, 2022 at 3:56 p.m.

As city Inspector General Joe Ferguson left office last October, Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed she would name a successor who would understand the importance of "staying in their lane" as...

Supporters board a bus at Lincoln Land Community College for a short ride to the 32nd annual Democratic Evening on the Lake fundraiser May 8, 2012, at Island Bay Yacht Club in Springfield.

David Greising: Freezing Madigan-linked Rebuild Illinois projects made sense. Unfreezing them didn’t.

March 17, 2022 at 2:52 p.m.

State Rep. Ann Williams and eight others early this month got Gov. J.B. Pritkzer to freeze $144 million of Rebuild Illinois projects tied to former Speaker Mike Madigan. The next...

Speaker Michael Madigan on the House floor before Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivers his first budget address to a joint session of the Illinois House and Senate in Springfield, Feb. 20, 2019.

David Greising: The feds have snagged Madigan. It’s time for Springfield to take ethics seriously.

March 4, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

More than 18 months have passed since Michael Madigan first showed up as "Public Official A" in the federal corruption case involving Commonwealth Edison. On Wednesday, federal authorities finally indicted...

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza during the Cook County Democratic Committee slating meeting on Dec. 14, 2021 at IBEW Local 134 in Chicago.

David Greising: Illinois needs to rely on the right voices to get its financial house in order

February 17, 2022 at 4:24 p.m.

In her first days on the job in December 2016, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza grabbed the purse strings of a state in the midst of a fiscal unraveling. The "rainy...

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin along the city's riverfront on Feb. 3, 2022. Ken Griffin will back Irvin's bid to defeat Pritzker's re-election in the Illinois gubernatorial race.

David Greising: Ken Griffin explains why he is backing Richard Irvin for governor and the size of his campaign down payment

February 14, 2022 at 11:56 a.m.

Ken Griffin, the state's wealthiest person and prime mover behind Gov. J.B. Pritzker's biggest policy defeat to date, has made his decision: He will back Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin's bid...

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