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A replacement water main pipe lies in the 3100 block of Chicago's North Richmond Street in 2018 before a deep trench is cut to install it. The Water Department will be testing a less invasive method that lines existing pipes rather than tearing them out and replacing them.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls for test of water main lining that could save trees, taxpayer money

September 13, 2019 at 1:38 p.m.

Sign up for The Spin to get the top stories in politics delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. City crews will try out cheaper, less invasive methods to replace aging...

The 41st Street pedestrian bridge that crosses Lake Shore Drive in Chicago has attracted partiers and caused parking issues in a nearby residential block. The City Council Transportation Committee on Sept. 12, 2019, approved an ordinance to create an overnight permit parking zone in the area during warmer months.

Parking and partying near Bronzeville bridge to Lake Michigan beach prompts summer street zone restrictions

September 13, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.

Sign up for The Spin to get the top stories in politics delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. Bronzeville residents fed up with parking shortages and late-night partiers outside their...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot presides over a City Council meeting in Chicago on July 24, 2019.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s affordable housing program to help residents in gentrifying neighborhoods stalls in City Council committee

September 11, 2019 at 7:43 p.m.

Sign up for The Spin to get the top stories in politics delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. Mayor Lori Lightfoot's bid to create a fund to help lower income...

A proposal by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, shown Aug. 30, 2019, would allow the city's corporation counsel more discretion to publicly release the city watchdog's investigations.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan advances to allow publication of some city watchdog cases

September 11, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

Sign up for The Spin to get the top stories in politics delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved a step closer Wednesday to giving her top...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a budget town hall meeting at the Copernicus Center on Sept. 4, 2019, in Chicago.

Facing $838 million city budget shortfall, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot holds first town hall: ‘We actually value your opinion’

September 6, 2019 at 9:14 a.m.

Tax visiting suburbanites. Stop offering pensions. Collect spare change. Perhaps the only suggestion Chicago residents didn't make to Mayor Lori Lightfoot at her first budget town hall was to hold...

A construction site in Jackson Park in Chicago, at the south end of the proposed site of the Obama Presidential Center on July 31, 2019.

Study: For many residents around Obama Presidential Center site, housing prices are already too expensive

September 5, 2019 at 1:45 p.m.

Sign up for The Spin to get the top stories in politics delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. With a new study showing rents around the Obama Presidential Center site...

Garbage outside a trash can near the entrance of the Lollapalooza Music Festival in Grant Park on Aug., 1, 2019.

Watchdog: City averaged nearly a year to send out citations for overflowing trash, other sanitation violations

September 4, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Sign up for The Spin to get the top stories in politics delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. The Chicago Law Department has averaged more than nine months to notify...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks with baiduhai reporters after an appearance before the baiduhai Editorial Board on Aug. 30, 2019.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot identified Chicago’s $838 million budget hole. Now comes the hard part — closing it.

August 30, 2019 at 4:51 p.m.

Even before Mayor Lori Lightfoot arrived at the Harold Washington Library Center for what she billed as a major speech on the city's grim finances, protesters were crowding the sidewalk...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivers her "State of the City" address at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago on Aug. 29, 2019.

In ‘State of the City’ speech, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Chicago faces $838 million budget shortfall next year: ‘It’s the largest in our recent history’

August 30, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot laid out a dismal financial forecast for Chicago during her citywide address Thursday night — a projected $838 million budget shortfall in the 2020 fiscal year —...

Attendees listen to Mayor Lori Lightfoot discuss her first 100 days in office during a panel discussion at Kenwood Academy High School on Aug. 28, 2019.

Critics call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep campaign promises as she prepares to outline Chicago’s massive budget deficit

August 29, 2019 at 6:59 a.m.

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot prepared to address Chicagoans on Thursday evening about the city's looming near-$1 billion budget deficit, advocates for the homeless urged her to keep campaign promises to...

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