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Protesters against the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Chicago suspends Moscow’s Sister City status over Russian invasion of Ukraine

March 1, 2022 at 3:40 p.m.

After nearly three dozen aldermen called for Chicago's Sister Cities relationship with Moscow to be suspended while the Russian war on Ukraine is ongoing, Mayor Lori Lightfoot directed World Business...

John Kronenberger, outside of Major Hector P. Garcia M.D. High School, where Kronenberger had been mistakenly ticketed for speeding on Nov. 12. The city of Chicago sent out speeding tickets from cameras near the school on that date, even though no school was in session because of a citywide push to encourage students to get vaccinated.

Chicago speed cameras nabbed drivers around school when kids weren’t in class: ‘6 mph over and they’ll ticket you every time’

February 25, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The city of Chicago has framed its school speed camera program as a way to keep kids safe, pushing back against claims it's a cash grab by pointing to a...

Members and supporters of the Fraternal Order of Police rally outside City Hall against the vaccine mandate in October.

COVID-19 vaccine mandate upheld for Chicago police; FOP president calls on officers to ‘hold the line’ but concedes they’re now ‘forced’ to get shots

February 23, 2022 at 6:51 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine mandate for Chicago police officers was upheld by an arbitrator who rejected the Fraternal Order of Police's grievances over the city's rules, she announced at a...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot chairs a City Council meeting on Feb. 23, 2022.

City Council vote on Lightfoot’s controversial gang asset forfeiture plan is delayed, indicating mayor needs to round up more support

February 24, 2022 at 6:18 a.m.

An ally of Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday temporarily stalled a controversial plan to empower the city to go after street gang leaders' vehicles and other assets, indicating the mayor...

Mia Wright, who was pulled from a car by Chicago police at the Brickyard, talks to reporters in the parking lot of the shopping center on June 4, 2020.

Opponents block settlement for woman dragged from car by police at Chicago mall days after George Floyd’s killing

February 23, 2022 at 3:04 p.m.

Aldermen blocked a $1.675 million taxpayer-funded settlement Wednesday for a group including a woman who was dragged from her car by Chicago police at the Brickyard mall in the tumultuous...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's gang asset seizure proposal has been criticized by some who say it would mainly harm poor young gang members and their families.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial gang asset seizure plan advances

February 17, 2022 at 7:29 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's controversial plan to fight crime by seizing street gang members' assets advanced Thursday despite continued condemnation of the idea from some aldermen and other critics. The...

How to carve up Chicago's neighborhoods — such as Bronzeville, pictured in 2020 — is the subject of a tense ward remap fight between Black and Latino caucuses.

In bitter Chicago ward remap fight, a new alliance: The Latino Caucus and a community-led activist group

February 20, 2022 at 4:25 p.m.

As they prepare for the possibility that voters will decide Chicago's new ward boundaries, Latino aldermen have teamed up with a progressive group on a proposed map. The news comes...

Mia Wright, who was pulled from a car by Chicago police at Brickyard Mall, talks to reporters in the parking lot of the Brickyard Mall in Chicago, June 4, 2020.

Woman dragged from car and restrained on the ground by Chicago police in line to share $1.6 million settlement

February 17, 2022 at 3:50 p.m.

A woman who was dragged from her car by Chicago police at the Brickyard Mall is a step closer to receiving part of a $1.675 million taxpayer-funded settlement. By a...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot finishes greeting parade viewers and participants before a Lunar New Year parade in Uptown Feb. 5.

Following Patrick Daley Thompson’s conviction, pressure mounts for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to appoint an Asian American to replace him on City Council

February 15, 2022 at 7:32 p.m.

Leaders in Chicago's Chinatown and beyond clamored Tuesday for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to appoint an Asian American successor to 11th Ward Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, whose federal tax fraud conviction...

Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, 11th, arrives for his trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Feb. 10, 2022.

Fellow alderman on Patrick Daley Thompson conviction: He got the ‘royal screw job because of what his name is’

February 15, 2022 at 11:21 a.m.

Now that Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson has been convicted of federal tax charges, it falls to Mayor Lori Lightfoot to name someone to succeed him in the Daley family's...

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