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Slabs of asphalt from the Lakefront Trail lie scattered at Oak Street Beach after Lake Michigan waves overtook the shoreline.

Aldermen press for ‘climate emergency’ declaration in Chicago

February 10, 2020 at 5:04 p.m.

Chicago aldermen are trying to reset the city's conservation agenda after earlier attempts to improve the environment largely fell short. The City Council Environmental Committee passed a resolution Monday declaring...

City worker Alonzo Owens takes pictures of waves crashing on East 73rd Street as his crew works to clear the flooded area along South Shore Drive in Chicago on Jan. 11, 2020.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls for federal disaster designation for Chicago lakefront

February 7, 2020 at 7:36 p.m.

Calling recent destructive Lake Michigan waves and flooding from historically high water levels "climate change in action right here in our city," Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday made a plea...

Lincoln Park High School students protest recent changes in school administration Feb. 6, 2020.

Lincoln Park High School local council says it was ‘completely blindsided’ by leaders’ removal but Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says CPS has ‘done a good job’ handling alleged misconduct

February 7, 2020 at 5:23 p.m.

Members of the Lincoln Park High School School Council say they were left out of the decision to remove top administrators and demanded more details from Chicago Public Schools officials....

Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, at City Hall in October. He wants to criminalize impersonating a ride-share driver.

Fake ride-share drivers could be jailed under plan aimed at preventing attacks against drunken passengers

February 7, 2020 at 6:52 a.m.

Chicago police would be able to get drivers pretending to be Uber and Lyft operators off the street before they attack drunken passengers they pick up outside bars, under a...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears at a Chicago City Council meeting in December. Lightfoot plans to publish a new guide on the TIF program.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she will put tighter reins on taxpayer funding for developments

February 5, 2020 at 1:01 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is promising to tighten up the procedure for awarding taxpayer subsidies to projects under a program that critics have for decades hammered as a slush fund for...

Groups call on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to ban city’s use of facial recognition technology

February 4, 2020 at 3:48 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot should ban the city's use of facial recognition technology of the kind the Chicago Police Department utilizes on the grounds it's racially biased and an invasion of...

Police work the scene where a teenager was shot during an attempted robbery in Chicago on Jan. 21.

Chicago violence rises in January, raising Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s concern

January 31, 2020 at 9:35 p.m.

After three consecutive years of declines in violence, Chicago's homicides and shootings have spiked in January, raising the concern of Mayor Lori Lightfoot. "I talked to the superintendent about it...

Mayor Lightfoot says Chicago will audit red-light cameras, won’t rip them all out following Sandoval bribery scandal

January 31, 2020 at 6:22 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot won't rip out Chicago's extensive red-light camera system in light of ex-state Sen. Martin Sandoval pleading guilty this week to federal charges that he took bribes from...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasts Jussie Smollett’s lawyers’ tactic seeking dirt on Eddie Johnson, calling it a ‘silly’ and ‘outrageous fishing expedition’ that won’t work

January 31, 2020 at 2:21 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday ripped a move by lawyers for actor Jussie Smollett to seek information on the scandal that led to the ouster of Chicago police Superintendent Eddie...

CeJaurrie Roberts retrieves scooters from the 2700 block of West Lake Street in October 2019.

Electric scooters will again descend on Chicago after first polarizing test in the city

January 29, 2020 at 9:07 a.m.

Heads on swivels, Chicagoans. The swarms of electric scooters that buzzed through parts of the city last summer are coming back for another go-round. There will be a second e-scooter...

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