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The Spin: Lightfoot vs. CTU over sending high schoolers back to classrooms | Oak Park residents vote down ‘defund police’ referendum | Mayor Lightfoot to attend White Sox home opener

April 7, 2021 at 5:33 p.m.

Our elected leaders must feel like they're in an unending Ping-Pong match, vacillating between hopeful messages about the increase in vaccinations while warning about the steady uptick in COVID-19 cases...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot puts her mask on after speaking during a post-election drive-up celebration at the 87th Street shopping center in the West Chatham neighborhood Sunday Nov. 8, 2020 in Chicago. The event commemorated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris victory over President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

The Spin: VP Kamala Harris visits Chicago vaccination site, bakery | Lightfoot says city will meet Biden’s April 19 deadline to open vaccine eligibility | It’s Election Day in the burbs

April 6, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.

You might have missed her if you blinked, but Vice President Kamala Harris made a short stop in Chicago today. Billed as an event to congratulate Chicago on its efforts...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker during a discussion on legislation that improves economic equity across Illinois at Kennedy King College in Chicago on March 26, 2021.

The Spin: Lightfoot calls for new Chicago police foot-chase policy after teen killed | Pritzker signs bill opposed by Lightfoot boosting firefighter pensions | Preckwinkle to greet Vice President Kamala Harris at airport tomorrow

April 5, 2021 at 5:37 p.m.

Tensions are high after Chicago police shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in the Little Village community last week, prompting Mayor Lori Lightfoot to call for an immediate change to...

The Interstate 80 bridge over the Des Plaines River can be seen April 1, 2021, in Joliet, Illinois. President Joe Biden will announce his $2 trillion infrastructure package this week, and the hefty federal spending program could mean improvements for Illinois and Chicago. Gov. J.B. Pritzker is in the middle of his own six-year Rebuild Illinois capital project. A boost in federal funds could speed up much of that work and allow the state to complete more projects on its wish list.

The Spin: Local politicos put together wish lists as Biden pushes $2T infrastructure plan | At 2-year mark, Lightfoot has yet to fulfill key campaign promises | White House sends Easter eggs to Chicago

April 2, 2021 at 4:14 p.m.

State, local and federal officials in Illinois are dusting off old plans and creating new wish lists as President Joe Biden pushes his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan to shore...

Ray LaHood, a former secretary of transportation, speaks at the opening of a new runway at O'Hare International Airport in 2015.

The Spin: Former Obama Cabinet member Ray LaHood, of Peoria, failed to report foreign loan | Kinzinger raises $2.2M for campaign, anti-Trump PAC | Lightfoot booed at Wrigley Field

April 1, 2021 at 4:41 p.m.

Ray LaHood, the former Republican congressman from Peoria who was transportation secretary in the Obama administration, took $50,000 from an associate of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire but failed to note it...

Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a listening session at the Boys & Girls Club of New Haven, Conn., on March 26, 2021, on how the American Rescue Plan addresses child poverty and education.

Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Chicago next week to discuss equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccine

March 31, 2021 at 8:05 p.m.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Chicago on Tuesday to talk about equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the White House. It's her first official visit here since...

File: Then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Democratic presidential hopeful speaks at a 2019 campaign event in Des Moines.

The Spin: Vice President Kamala Harris in Chicago Tuesday | More Lightfoot vs. Pritzker tension? | Lightfoot to join public health doctors on the mound for Cubs home opener

March 31, 2021 at 6:03 p.m.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Chicago on Tuesday to talk about equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the White House. It's her first official visit since she...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot throws out a ceremonial first pitch before the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates play on April 8, 2019, in the home opener at Wrigley Field.

With assist from Mayor Lightfoot, public health doctors Arwady, Ezike to throw out ceremonial first pitches at Cubs home opener

March 31, 2021 at 3:55 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot will be at the pitcher's mound on Thursday as the two public health officials who have shepherded Chicago and Illinois through the pandemic are honored for their...

Mayor Lori Lighfoot and Gov. J.B Pritzker at a news conference at the University of Chicago's Harper Center on July 23, 2020.

The Spin: Lightfoot calls COVID-19 uptick ‘alarming’ | Pritzker’s public health team puts brakes on reopening plans | Biden picks Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for seat on Chicago appellate court

March 30, 2021 at 4:40 p.m.

With Gov. J.B. Pritzker's public health team putting the brakes on plans to lift some pandemic-related restrictions, Mayor Lori Lightfoot took to Twitter today and called the rise in COVID-19...

Ansel Madourie votes early in the 2020 presidential election Nov. 1, 2020, at the Morton Civic Center in Evanston.

The Spin: Duckworth’s ‘disappointment’ over not being Biden’s VP | Biden, Lightfoot plead with public as COVID-19 cases rise | School board elections and the pandemic

March 30, 2021 at 4:23 p.m.

President Joe Biden called on governors and mayors to either reinstitute or maintain COVID-19 mask orders, The New York Times reports, after the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease...

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