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Aldermen, clockwise from left, Samantha Nugent, 39th, Jim Gardiner, 45th, Anthony Napolitano, 41st, and Nick Sposato, 38th, pose before the Chicago City Council meeting on April 21, 2021. It marked the first in-person council meeting since the pandemic.

In return to in-person meetings, Chicago City Council approves Lightfoot-backed affordable housing ordinance and advocates push for civilian police oversight plan

April 24, 2021 at 1:51 p.m.

At their first in-person meeting since the early days of the pandemic, Chicago aldermen on Wednesday approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot's long-promised changes to the city's affordable housing requirements for developers....

Three years before the first night game at Wrigley Field, supporters come out to support the lights.

Cubs would get a rare Friday night game at Wrigley Field under alderman’s plan

April 21, 2021 at 6:04 p.m.

The Chicago Cubs could get a rare Friday night home game in June to give them a better chance to beat the Miami Marlins, perhaps a testament to the waning...

Ald. Gilbert Villegas talks about the coronavirus economic recovery plan, April 23, 2020, at the Historic Water Tower.

Basic income plan to pay 5,000 Chicagoans $500 per month will head to City Council this week

April 19, 2021 at 4:54 p.m.

A Chicago alderman is pressing ahead this week with his plan for a guaranteed basic income program in the city. Northwest Side Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, wants to use $30...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a press conference at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School on April 19, 2021, in Chicago.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot dismisses unsubstantiated weekend Twitter chatter: ‘Unfortunately … there are stupid and mean people out there’

April 19, 2021 at 4:32 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday dismissed unsubstantiated social media chatter from over the weekend that included claims she was about to resign, saying she at one point told her daughter,...

Chicago Teachers Union members and supporters gather outside Jungman Elementary School in the Pilsen neighborhood Jan. 18, 2021, for a news conference and march.

Chicago Teachers Union approves deal to reopen high schools Monday

April 18, 2021 at 5:02 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union has voted to approve a plan to reopen high schools starting Monday, the union said Sunday. The union tweeted Sunday that "The CTU Rules & Elections...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at City Hall on April 15, 2021.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls Twitter rumors ‘homophobic, racist and misogynistic,’ indicates she is not resigning

April 18, 2021 at 2:39 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Sunday blasted unsubstantiated social media chatter as "homophobic, racist and misogynistic rumors" and indicated she is not resigning. Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at City Hall on...

A pedestrian passes by the Archbishop Quigley Center at 835 N. Rush St. on Feb. 27, 2013. The Chicago Archdiocese announced that the pastor of a west suburban church has stepped aside due to allegations that he sexually abused a minor three decades ago.

Suburban pastor steps down over sex abuse allegations

April 18, 2021 at 1:47 p.m.

The pastor of a west suburban church has stepped aside due to allegations that he sexually abused a minor three decades ago, the Archdiocese of Chicago has announced. In a...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot tears up at City Hall on April 15, 2021, while talking about the video of the fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo.

As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot makes emotional call for peace after release of Adam Toledo video, other politicians lambaste police: ‘You did not have to shoot that kid’

April 15, 2021 at 7:56 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot choked back tears Thursday as she discussed the video footage of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo in a Little Village alley two weeks...

A member of the Chicago Fire Department walks up a firetruck ladder at the scene of a structure fire in August 2016.

Chicago Fire Department needs stronger policies against sexual harassment, racial discrimination, city watchdog says

April 14, 2021 at 6:03 p.m.

The Chicago Fire Department needs to put in place stronger policies to deal with the sexual harassment and racial discrimination that have long dogged the agency, the city's watchdog found...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot at City Hall on Nov. 24, 2020.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot looks to earmark nearly $1 billion in federal stimulus to pay off city’s COVID-19 borrowing

April 14, 2021 at 1:07 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot hopes to spend nearly $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money to pay off the short-term borrowing her administration has used to get through the pandemic so...

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