Lightfoot makes a big statement

Jun 3, 2019 | News

“Thursday was a peace rally. Friday was a game of corn hole with Black youth. Monday was a Memorial Day ceremony at Grant Park. Tuesday was a press conference about a violent holiday weekend, and a speech at the City Club of Chicago. A Black majority of new...

Takeaways From Lightfoot’s First Chicago City Council Meeting

Jun 3, 2019 | News

“Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot snagged a major victory Wednesday, elevating her City Council allies to key leadership roles and putting her political rival in his place. In all, Lightfoot’s first time presiding over a full City Council meeting was a marked break...

Lightfoot pushes $15 minimum wage, more local control over police

Jun 3, 2019 | News

“Declaring that “deliberate policy choices made in decades past by people in power in this town” have impoverished much of the South and West sides, Mayor Lori Lightfoot today laid out an extensive—and, in part, controversial—agenda as to how she intends to...