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Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson speaks during a press conference at police headquarters in Chicago on Oct. 3, 2017.

Chicago aldermen call for better enforcement of recycling rules for big buildings

February 10, 2021 at 6:49 p.m.

Chicago's government watchdog on Wednesday highlighted failures by the city to monitor and enforce its recycling program for bigger buildings across the city. Inspector General Joseph Ferguson told a joint...

Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, died at age 98 on Dec. 5, 2021.

Legendary former Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has died. ‘She was a fighter and a treasure for this city.’

February 8, 2021 at 7:22 p.m.

Karen Lewis, the firebrand former Chicago Teachers Union president who led a seven-day strike and nearly ran for mayor, has died at 67. Details of her death were not immediately...

In this file photo, Chicago Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady gives an update about the COVID-19 vaccines before getting the vaccination at Malcolm X College in Chicago on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020.

Chicago health commissioner says librarians shouldn’t get moved up in vaccine line

February 8, 2021 at 6:18 p.m.

Chicago's health commissioner on Monday rejected the idea of adding librarians to the ranks of essential workers to get prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine, saying the infection rates aren't high enough...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks about the Anjanette Young raid Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, at City Hall.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot changes police video release rules in response to Anjanette Young raid

February 8, 2021 at 12:08 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot continued to try to show she's making changes in the fallout from the Anjanette Young wrongful police raid controversy on Friday, signing an executive order designed to...

A student gets her temperature checked as she arrives for the first day of classes at Southside Occupational High School in Chicago on Jan. 11, 2021.

Nearing another strike, Lightfoot versus CTU escalates long-running conflict between City Hall and Chicago’s public school teachers

February 6, 2021 at 8:41 a.m.

During the 2019 run-up to what would become the Chicago Teachers Union's longest strike in decades, Mayor Lori Lightfoot took stock of the differences between the labor issues she was...

Postal Service vehicles outside a post office at 8345 S. Ashland Ave.

Chicago aldermen call for improvements to mail delivery delays on city’s South Side

February 4, 2021 at 7:32 p.m.

Three South Side aldermen called Thursday for the U.S. Postal Service to fix big delays in mail delivery. Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, who represents part of the 60636 ZIP code...

The Pipes and Drums of the Chicago Police Department marched during the 2019 South Side Irish Parade in Chicago.

Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parades again canceled

February 2, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

If a shamrock-bedecked Chicago politician hollers "Erin Go Bragh" and there are no St. Patrick's Day revelers on hand to hear it, does the pandering win any votes? That's the...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot begins a virtual City Council meeting from her office at City Hall on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Chicago City Council closes loopholes in Welcoming City ordinance, ending police cooperation with federal immigration agents

March 11, 2024 at 1:50 p.m.

Aldermen closed loopholes in Chicago's Welcoming City ordinance on Wednesday, prohibiting police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities to deport immigrants living in the country without legal permission who have...

Airickca Gordon-Taylor, center in purple, and the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., both cousins of Emmett Till, speak outside Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ in Chicago on Aug. 28, 2015. They led a motorcade to Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of Emmett Till. Till's funeral took place at Roberts Temple in September 1955.

Emmett Till’s Chicago home granted city landmark status

January 28, 2021 at 8:04 a.m.

The South Side home of Emmett Till and his mother — where the boy was living when he was tortured and murdered during a 1955 trip to Mississippi — was...

Chicago police officer Danielle Flores helps distribute flyers on the South Side on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, advising people how to avoid becoming a carjacking victim.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says spike in carjackings ‘top of mind,’ adding 40 more police officers to carjacking unit and gathering regional mayors

January 27, 2021 at 6:09 p.m.

Under pressure over Chicago's ongoing spike in carjackings, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday that the issue is "top of mind" for her and announced the Police Department has added 40...

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