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Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at Hawthorne Scholastic Academy on March 1, 2021. In a recent poll, 52% of respondents said they approved of the job Lightfoot has done on economic development.

Ghost kitchen poll finds more than half of Chicagoans surveyed approve of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s job performance

May 13, 2021 at 5:19 p.m.

A poll conducted on behalf of a company that runs a controversial North Side ghost kitchen site found a majority of Chicagoans surveyed approve of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's job...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot applauds Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson at City Hall on May 3, 2021. Jackson is leaving the district this summer.

As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s two-year anniversary approaches, top-level vacancies are mounting: ‘This has been a very tough year, I think, on a lot of people’

May 13, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

When a power outage at a Far South Side water treatment plant last week forced Chicago officials to require residents to boil water to ensure it wasn't contaminated, acting Water...

Denise Avant uses a crossing signal with voice commands at the corner of Roscoe Street and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood on April 15, 2021.

Chicago lags behind major cities that have audio signals at street crossings for blind pedestrians. Boston has more than 300. Chicago has 18.

May 7, 2021 at 4:55 p.m.

In 2019, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago would make the city's intersections more accessible for blind and low-vision pedestrians, pledging on the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act...

Ald. Maria Hadden, 49th, in her Rogers Park neighborhood on March 3, 2021.

To slow summer violence, aldermen and activists call for alternatives to spending federal coronavirus stimulus money on Chicago police

May 4, 2021 at 5:49 p.m.

Chicago's notoriously violent summer months and the upcoming influx of huge sums of federal coronavirus stimulus money are setting up a showdown between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and activists over the...

Customers wait for their clothes at a laundromat on March 22, 2020, in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago.

Laundromat vaccines? Chicago officials trying to figure out how to find people who still need the shots

May 3, 2021 at 5:28 p.m.

City health teams might come looking for unvaccinated Chicagoans at the laundromat, the grocery store or driver's license offices as officials try to increase the rates of people getting the...

Automobiles on Lake Shore Drive pour back into the city after a holiday weekend on July 6, 1947. This photo was taken at 7:30 p.m. from the North Avenue Bridge. From the 1940s to the '70s, a section north of North Avenue featured a unique, though problem-plagued, system of curb-high lane barriers that could be raised or lowered to provide six lanes in the direction of rush-hour traffic instead of the standard four lanes in each direction.

After much rancor, renaming Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable now step away from reality

April 29, 2021 at 5:54 p.m.

There were accusations of racism, concerns over address changes and an alternate plan pushed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But after the noise quieted Thursday, Chicago moved a step closer to...

Then-11th Ward aldermanic candidate Patrick Daley Thompson reacts as he sees his live image on a television screen while giving a speech to supporters at Laborers' Union Hall in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood on April 7, 2015.

Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, nephew of Richard M. Daley, hit with federal charges in bank case

April 30, 2021 at 10:52 a.m.

Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, nephew and grandson of the city's two legendary mayors, was charged Thursday as part of a federal investigation into the collapse of a clout-heavy bank...

Veronica Alvarez, center, the mother of 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez, is comforted by supporters on April 27, 2021, after watching video of her son's fatal shooting.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, aldermen look for answers after release of video showing Anthony Alvarez’s fatal shooting by a Chicago police officer

April 28, 2021 at 6:10 p.m.

Yet another video showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a man during a foot chase has prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot and aldermen to try to look for answers on...

A Grubhub sign hangs in the window of a Chicago restaurant.

Delivery fee cap for Chicago restaurants lapses, alderman seeks to reinstate it

April 22, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

Restaurant delivery services such as Uber Eats and DoorDash can again impose higher fees on Chicago restaurants, setting up another potential showdown with City Hall over reinstating caps on such...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at a news conference Feb. 26, 2021.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says city’s ‘full steam ahead’ on path to a Chicago casino, but a long road lies ahead

April 22, 2021 at 12:01 a.m.

The city is "full steam ahead" on the road to a Chicago casino, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said this week, while also laying out significant steps that still need to be...

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