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Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes questions from the news media after reading a statement concerning a video of Chicago police mistakenly searching the wrong house, during a news conference at City Hall on Dec. 16, 2020.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot apologizes for wrongful police raid, said it was a mistake to try to stop CBS from airing body camera video

December 17, 2020 at 12:57 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot apologized to social worker Anjanette Young on Wednesday for the Chicago Police Department's 2019 raid on her home, during which officers handcuffed her while she was naked,...

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

Lightfoot introduces plan to close loopholes allowing Chicago police to cooperate with immigration agents

March 11, 2024 at 1:54 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday followed through on a pledge to introduce a plan to the City Council that would eliminate loopholes in the city's Welcoming City Ordinance that allow...

Pedestrians look at windows shattered by looters at the Timberland store on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago on Aug. 10, 2020.

Lightfoot: ‘A mistake’ for downtown aldermen to oppose Michigan Avenue taxing district

December 16, 2020 at 11:41 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday called it "a mistake" for downtown aldermen to oppose her plan to fast-track a special property tax district for North Michigan Avenue, saying business owners...

Howard Brookins has been alderman in the 21st Ward since 2003.

Chicago alderman fined by city’s Ethics Board for representing former colleague in criminal case

December 16, 2020 at 7:59 p.m.

The Chicago Board of Ethics has fined an alderman $5,000 for defending a former City Council colleague in a criminal case, saying doing so violates a city government ethics rule...

Windows are replaced at MCM on North Michigan Avenue after looting on Aug. 10, 2020.

Special tax district proposed for Michigan Avenue following looting stalls amid opposition from downtown aldermen

December 14, 2020 at 2:16 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's plan to quickly set up a special property tax district on North Michigan Avenue following high-profile looting incidents there stalled Monday amid opposition from downtown aldermen. Lightfoot...

A Marshall High School student who was shocked with a stun gun holds her cellphone displaying a video of her struggle with police, during an interview at her Chicago home on Feb. 6, 2019.

Aldermen advance $300,000 settlement for girl shocked by Taser by police in West Side high school

December 14, 2020 at 2:13 p.m.

A girl who was shocked with a Taser by police during a scuffle at her West Side high school is in line for a $300,000 settlement in the case that...

Automobiles on Lake Shore Drive pour back into the city after a holiday weekend on July 6, 1947. This photo was taken at 7:30pm 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.

Aldermen debate renaming Lake Shore Drive for DuSable, Black man credited with founding Chicago

December 12, 2020 at 10:11 a.m.

The famous song lyrics about Chicago's iconic lakefront roadway might soon need to be amended to "slippin' on by on Jean Baptiste, Friday night trouble bound." Aldermen on Friday debated...

The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers play in an empty stadium Aug. 16, 2020, at Wrigley Field.

Lightfoot-backed plan to let Cubs defer infrastructure payment to city advances

December 9, 2020 at 4:15 p.m.

Chicago aldermen moved a step closer Wednesday to letting the Cubs put off a $250,000 payment for infrastructure work around Wrigley Field. The proposal backed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot allows...

Ann Sather restaurant on Belmont Avenue in Lakeview on Dec. 7, 2020. Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney's Ann Sather restaurant is facing up to $10,500 in possible fines from the city.

Chicago alderman’s Ann Sather restaurant facing up to $10,500 in possible fines for indoor dining violations

December 8, 2020 at 4:18 p.m.

Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney's Ann Sather restaurant is facing up to $10,500 in possible fines from the city after the Chicago aldermen acknowledged letting people eat inside the establishment in...

Ann Sather restaurant on Belmont Avenue in Lakeview on Dec. 7, 2020.

Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney allowed diners inside his Ann Sather restaurant in violation of COVID-19 rules, calls it an ‘error in judgment’

December 7, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.

Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney's Ann Sather restaurant got a visit from city inspectors Monday because the alderman has been allowing people to eat inside the establishment in violation of city...

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