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Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Chicago still vaccinating health care workers, no immediate plans to expand to seniors, health commissioner says

January 12, 2021 at 7:39 p.m.

Chicago has no immediate plans to start moving into the next phase of COVID-19 vaccination where older people and essential workers could start getting the shots. Health care workers in...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot at a news conference on the first day of in-person learning at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago on Jan. 11, 2021.

City officials defend Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s school reopening plan at City Council hearing

January 11, 2021 at 5:32 p.m.

Aldermen pressed city officials to justify their plan to start reopening Chicago public schools Monday as some students began returning to classrooms. The City Council Education Committee heard from Health...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

Chicago using COVID-19 tests that FDA warns may give false negatives

January 8, 2021 at 5:08 p.m.

Chicago's public COVID-19 testing sites for months have been using test kits that the Food and Drug Administration warned this week should not be used on people who don't experience...

A prekindergarten classroom is prepared with a social distancing reminder at South Shore Fine Arts Academy on Jan. 6, 2021.

Chicago aldermen plan hearing on CPS reopening plan

January 6, 2021 at 5:53 p.m.

Aldermen will meet Monday, as some students return to Chicago public schools, to debate the specifics of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's controversial plan to start getting kids back into classrooms. The...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes questions from the news media on Dec. 16, 2020, at City Hall after talking about the wrongful 2019 police raid in Anjanette Young's home.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot again tries to pass civilian oversight of Police Department

January 5, 2021 at 3:03 p.m.

Aldermen and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are taking yet another crack at establishing civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department, but Lightfoot won't predict how long it will take to adopt...

A speed camera sign warns drivers along Humboldt Boulevard, Jan. 4, 2021, inside Humboldt Park.

Starting in March, speed camera tickets will be issued in Chicago for drivers 6 mph over limit

January 4, 2021 at 4:30 p.m.

Drivers caught by automated speed cameras across Chicago going 6 to 9 mph over the limit will start getting $35 tickets in the mail in March, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced...

Activists protest near a speed camera in the 5300 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue Nov. 20, 2020.

Speed camera tickets starting at 6 mph above the limit part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 revenue packages

December 30, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

With 2021 upon us, Mayor Lori Lightfoot will soon end Chicago motorists' carefree days of driving up to 9 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. The city will...

Then-Judge Ann Claire Williams participates in a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, not shown, at Roosevelt University in Chicago on Sept. 11, 2017.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot enlists former federal judge to investigate Anjanette Young case

December 22, 2020 at 6:22 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot enlisted a former federal judge Tuesday to do an outside review of the botched Police Department raid that has consumed her administration for more than a week,...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot departs after talkng about the Anjanette Young raid, Dec. 21, 2020, at City Hall.

Cops involved in Anjanette Young raid placed on desk duty; Lightfoot says Black people nationwide ‘feel angry and feel violated’

December 21, 2020 at 4:52 p.m.

The Chicago police officers involved in the botched raid of Anjanette Young's home have been placed on desk duty, the latest measure by Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration in response to...

Activists hold a news conference in front of Chicago police headquarters on Thursday, Dec. 17, to voice their opposition to police wrongly raiding the home of Anjanette Young.

Chicago aldermen end call for special City Council meeting to address errant police raid on Anjanette Young’s home after city drops pursuit of sanctions against her lawyer

December 18, 2020 at 9:03 p.m.

Furor over a wrongful Chicago police raid of a social worker's home and Mayor Lori Lightfoot's handling of the fallout continued Friday, as a group of aldermen sought a special...

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