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Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at City Hall on April 8, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic.

City expects federal coronavirus stimulus package to give $1.5 billion to Chicago government, CPS and CTA

April 9, 2020 at 4:31 p.m.

The city of Chicago and sister agencies will receive roughly $1.5 billion from the federal stimulus package passed by Congress last month, but it's still too early to say how...

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

With coronavirus hitting Chicago’s black community hard, leaders call for wide-ranging relief

April 9, 2020 at 2:02 p.m.

Black officials stepped up their demands Thursday for Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker to provide rent and mortgage relief and other help for minorities who are getting hit...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks about the coronavirus pandemic at City Hall on Wednesday, April 8, 2020.

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot supports suspending FOIA deadlines during coronavirus shutdown, says saving lives more important

April 8, 2020 at 8:28 p.m.

Efforts by reporters and others to get information from the city of Chicago through freedom of information requests should take a back seat to saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic,...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle appears at a County Board meeting in Chicago on Jan. 16, 2020.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle not ready to consider layoffs as ‘economy falls off a cliff’ because of coronavirus crisis

April 8, 2020 at 1:33 p.m.

The double whammy of plummeting tax revenue and high health care costs thanks to the coronavirus will hit Cook County's budget hard, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said Wednesday, but...

First Chicago firefighter dies of coronavirus, officials say

April 8, 2020 at 8:50 a.m.

The first Chicago firefighter has died from the coronavirus, officials said Tuesday night. Mario Araujo, 49, worked in the Rogers Park neighborhood for more than 16 years. Chicago Fire Department...

Andre Wallace, manager of Personal Liquors in the 4200 block of West Madison Street in Chicago, with Tatyanna Smith, put together an order on April 6, 2020. As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19 virus, the store and a few other liquor stores will voluntarily close early.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot floats move to crack down on congregating outside Chicago liquor stores

April 6, 2020 at 5:41 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said that the number of Chicagoans hanging around outside liquor stores is a problem, and floated the idea of enacting new rules to try to...

Michael Fassnacht speaks to the media along with Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Oct. 1, 2019, at Chicago City Hall.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot names marketing officer to help Chicago tourism rebound from pandemic stagnation

April 6, 2020 at 4:55 p.m.

The job of trying to market a post-coronavirus Chicago to the world and get tourists, conventioneers and business travelers to again fill the city's hotel rooms will fall to an...

Photographer Victor Skrebneski at the unveiling of the Chicago Film Festival's 50th anniversary poster, which includes his photograph, at Expo 72 in Chicago on Sept. 10, 2014.

‘My heart is broken’: Friends remember legendary photographer and lifelong Chicagoan Victor Skrebneski

April 5, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.

Famed photographer Victor Skrebneski has died, friends and officials said. Skrebneski, who was 90, passed away Saturday of cancer after a 70-year career, according to a statement from Emily Osborne,...

Illinois Air National Guard members work on a construction of the McCormick Place alternate care facility in Chicago, April 10, 2020.

As Illinois surpasses 10,000 coronavirus cases, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Chicago health commissioner urge residents to wear face masks outside their homes

April 4, 2020 at 7:38 p.m.

Illinois now has recorded over 10,000 new coronavirus cases, a milestone in the pandemic that Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Saturday while estimating the spread of the disease will peak later...

Dr. Allison Arwady, director of the Chicago Department of Public Health, during the filming of her "The Doc Is In: Ask Dr. Arwady" Facebook Live event on March 26, 2020.

Chicago health chief Dr. Allison Arwady supports facial coverings to help stop coronavirus spread

April 4, 2020 at 4:57 p.m.

Chicago's health chief on Saturday said she supported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation that people use facial coverings to help stop the virus' spread. In her wide-ranging...

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