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Lightfoot faces calls to release investigative report on former police Superintendent Eddie Johnson

June 30, 2020 at 7:20 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday continued to resist calls to release the inspector general's report on the October incident that led her to fire police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. "We should...

Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson gets emotional while answering questions as Mayor Lori Lightfoot looks on during Johnson's retirement announcement at a news conference at police headquarters on Nov, 7, 2019.

City releases bodycam video from night former police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel

July 16, 2020 at 2:02 p.m.

The city of Chicago on Monday released records and body camera footage related to an October incident in which then-police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel, which...

President Donald Trump addresses a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on June 24, 2020.

Trump calls Pritzker, Lightfoot failures on Chicago gun violence; they dismiss as distraction from his job on COVID

June 26, 2020 at 10:16 p.m.

Republican President Donald Trump lashed out Friday night at Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot over Chicago's gun violence, saying the two had put their "own political interests"...

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon bumps elbows with Ald. Emma Mitts, 37th, at Chicago City Hall on June 26, 2020, after joining with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, to announce Walmart will reopen seven stores that were damaged during unrest after the death of George Floyd.

Walmart says it will reopen Chicago stores that closed during unrest

June 26, 2020 at 5:09 p.m.

Walmart on Friday announced plans to reopen seven Chicago stores that had closed during recent unrest, welcome news for neighborhoods that in some cases had gone weeks without a place...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears at a press conference at Evergreen Academy Middle School, June 25, 2020.

Lightfoot takes part of Chicago summer youths job program online during COVID-19 pandemic

June 26, 2020 at 3:48 p.m.

Chicago's annual summer jobs program will hire 20,000 young people this year, including 2,000 as part of a new youth service corps dedicated to service that will include helping with...

Wrigley Field in Chicago is shown in March 2020. Cubs President of Business Operations Crane Kenney said he's optimistic there will be fans in seats at some point this year.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Chicago’s ‘not there yet’ on fans in stands at ballparks

June 25, 2020 at 6:43 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday threw up the stop sign on the idea of fans in the stands at Chicago's ballparks this season, saying neither the Cubs nor the White...

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

Chicago setting up mobile COVID-19 testing sites to help monitor disease

June 23, 2020 at 1:52 p.m.

In an effort to get COVID-19 tests to people who need them, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday announced mobile testing for residents in hard-hit African American neighborhoods on the South...

Hand sanitizer dispensers are available near Cloud Gate on June 15, 2020, as Millennium Park reopens.

Chicago will join rest of Illinois in advancing to next phase in coronavirus reopening on Friday

June 23, 2020 at 6:41 a.m.

Chicagoans got a bit of unexpected news on the coronavirus reopening front Monday, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would move the city to the next stage this Friday along...

Racist graffiti found on Southwest Side preschool, alderman says

June 22, 2020 at 11:03 a.m.

A Southwest Side alderman is calling on residents to help catch whomever scrawled racist graffiti on the front of a preschool in the Brighton Park neighborhood. Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th,...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks to reporters June 18, 2020.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot rips Chicago Teachers Union’s ‘Scooby-Doo’ tweet as ‘racist’

June 19, 2020 at 6:57 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday lambasted as "clearly racist" and "deeply offensive" a tweet by the Chicago Teachers Union depicting an apparent cartoon version of her tied up, wearing a...

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