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Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot walks in the St. Patrick's Day parade on Sat. March 16, 2019.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cancels St. Patrick’s Day parades because of coronavirus, says they’ll be rescheduled

March 11, 2020 at 1:49 p.m.

The coronavirus claimed its first major events in Chicago's civic life Wednesday, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot canceled the city's massive St. Patrick's Day parades for this weekend because of fears...

The Chicago River is dyed green for St. Patrick's Day as viewed from the LondonHouse rooftop patio on March 16, 2019.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker questions whether Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parades should go on

March 10, 2020 at 7:45 p.m.

Amid a national wave of event cancellations due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday questioned whether Chicago's St. Patrick's Day parades should happen this weekend,...

Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, shown in 2019, is backing a plan that would levy fines and possibly jail for people busted using "data-dropping technology" to send unsolicited explicit photos.

Sending unwanted explicit photos from phone to phone would be criminalized under Chicago City Council plan

March 10, 2020 at 1:26 p.m.

Aldermen on Tuesday advanced a plan to criminalize "cyber-flashing," the increasingly common act of people forwarding photos of genitals to strangers in public places via a cellphone app. The City...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and interim Chicago Police Superintendent Charlie Beck at a news conference in Chicago on Feb. 28, 2020.

Chicago police civilian oversight plan stalls in committee amid ongoing negotiations between activists, mayor’s office

March 10, 2020 at 6:51 p.m.

A plan to create a civilian oversight commission over the Chicago Police Department will not advance through a City Council committee Tuesday, amid ongoing negotiations between activists and Mayor Lori...

$500,000 settlement proposed for mother of man who died in Chicago police custody

March 9, 2020 at 7:13 p.m.

Aldermen are set to consider a $500,000 payment to the mother of a man who died shortly after Chicago police took him into custody. The proposed deal in the case...

Paradegoers celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Chicago on March 16, 2019.

Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parades are still a go, officials say

March 9, 2020 at 5:41 p.m.

Even as Boston canceled its St. Patrick's Day parade, Ireland announced festivities across the island would be halted to try to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 virus and Gov....

Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions during a brief media availability at the Illinois State Capitol on Feb. 18, 2020.

Lightfoot defends neighborhood housing strategy after Pilsen comments draw fire

March 9, 2020 at 11:12 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday defended her record on fighting residential displacement a day after critics ripped her for saying the fast-gentrifying Pilsen neighborhood is now vibrant and thriving compared...

In this file photo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions during a brief media availability at the Illinois State Capitol building, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Chicago’s Pilsen community now thriving. Alderman wonders, ‘Thriving for whom?’

March 5, 2020 at 6:55 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday said Chicago's near South Side Pilsen community is now "a vibrant, thriving neighborhood" compared with 10 years ago, when it "was a neighborhood we all...

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown in 2017.

During Dorothy Brown’s near 20-year run, the Cook County Clerk’s office has had its share of controversy. Now, 4 Democrats are vying to replace her

March 5, 2020 at 7:57 p.m.

Dorothy Brown's on her way out as clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court, and the four Democrats vying to replace her are defining their plans in relation to her...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, shown Feb. 28, said recently she would not follow the school board's lead and change the Columbus Day holiday at the city level.

Chicago Public Schools’ change from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day was not legal, group says

March 4, 2020 at 6:56 p.m.

Saying the Chicago Board of Education's recent vote to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day was illegal, Italian American groups and others called on Wednesday for the body to...

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