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Mayor Lori Lightfoot arrives at 150 N, Michigan Ave. to speak with reporters about her political team asking Chicago Public Schools teachers to help recruit students for her reelection campaign, Jan. 12, 2023.

Ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned about email electioneering 10 months before campaign tried to recruit CPS students

May 17, 2023 at 5:14 p.m.

Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot's campaign was told to stop electioneering to city employees nearly a year before her staff tried to recruit Chicago Public Schools students to do political work...

Mayor Brandon Johnson visits a temporary respite center for migrants and asylum seekers at Piotrowski Park in the Little Village neighborhood on May 16, 2023.

Mayor Brandon Johnson offers empathy but no immediate solutions as he visits migrant shelters

May 16, 2023 at 6:07 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson spent his first full day in office Tuesday visiting Chicago government facilities housing migrants, including a Pilsen police station and Little Village park center where he decried...

Mayor Brandon Johnson waves after being sworn in alongside his wife, Stacie Rencher-Johnson, and children during his inauguration on May 15, 2023, at the Credit Union 1 Arena on the UIC campus.

Brandon Johnson sworn in as Chicago mayor: ‘Our best and brighter days are ahead of us’

May 15, 2023 at 6:56 p.m.

Brandon Johnson commenced his mayoral term Monday with a rousing promise to propel the "soul of Chicago" to its greatest era yet, capping off the former commissioner and longtime labor...

Mayoral candidate Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, center, greets people in the Loop after being endorsed by U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, left, on March 6, 2023.

Brandon Johnson’s rise from union organizer to Chicago’s new progressive mayor, and the challenges he inherits

May 15, 2023 at 12:55 p.m.

Brandon Johnson will be sworn in as Chicago's 57th mayor on Monday, kicking off a new era at City Hall that he promises will be the city's most progressive and...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's staff work on technical issues at the beginning of a virtual City Council meeting from her office at City Hall on June 17, 2020.

Lori Lightfoot’s legacy: A combative mayor who led Chicago through crises, some of her own making

May 14, 2023 at 10:05 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will exit office Monday after presiding over the city's most tumultuous era in generations, one marked by enormous strain on every element of civic life and...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shakes hands with supporters as she exits City Hall on her final day in office on May 12, 2023.

As she exits office, Mayor Lori Lightfoot signs string of executive orders

May 14, 2023 at 6:43 a.m.

Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot used her last weekday as the city's chief executive to issue a flurry of orders aimed at cementing some of her key initiatives that could force...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks alongside Chicago Fire Department personnel at a press conference on April 5, 2023.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration fought release of records involving allegations against top fire official

May 12, 2023 at 6:41 p.m.

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot approached her final month in office, her administration released hundreds of pages of mostly unredacted records involving accusations of workplace misconduct in city government after fighting...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx arrives to talk about the R. Kelly allegations, Jan. 8, 2019.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says she will not run for reelection

April 25, 2023 at 5:09 p.m.

After more than six years marked by historic criminal justice reforms, controversy over her prosecutorial policies and the Jussie Smollett scandal, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx said she won't...

Rich Guidice sits during an interview with the baiduhai on April 21, 2023. Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has selected City Hall veteran Guidice to be his chief of staff.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s top staff members bring different perspectives to City Hall but say they strike ‘a good balance’

April 21, 2023 at 6:16 p.m.

The two top staff members of Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's administration are a pragmatic City Hall veteran and a progressive-minded state legislator, a dynamic they say will be a strength in...

With his running mate Paul Vallas, left, at his side, Gov. Pat Quinn does not concede defeat on election night in Chicago, Nov. 4, 2014, although challenger Bruce Rauner had collected more votes by 11:25pm.

Paul Vallas seeks $700,000 from campaign consultant ‘for services they did not perform’

April 21, 2023 at 6:42 p.m.

In Paul Vallas' ultimately losing effort to become Chicago mayor, his campaign paid a political consultant nearly $700,000 to help win over Black voters — work Vallas now claims in...

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