Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Recent News About Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
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Alderman Lopez warns Lightfoot that a full-blown race war is brewing
Mayor Lightfoot is too busy micromanaging the police, according to Alderman
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Former CPD Chief Gerry McCarthy slams Lightfoot: "Can we call it a riot and get it over with?"
Former Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy slammed Mayor Lori Lightfoot's response to Saturday night rioting in The Loop, suggesting it has grown out of control because she is treating it like a protest."It’s time to take off the gloves and stop trying to control the crowd and start making arrests," McCarthy said.Can we call it a riot and get it over with?
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Lightfoot vows to focus on providing stimulus rather than cutting services during COVID-19 crisis
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other city leaders are considering a variety of options to ensure city services remain accessible during the coronavirus outbreak.
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From North Cook News
Business owner: Chicago should end Divvy bike program
Chicago small business owner and homeowner Mark Weyermuller said the city should not be in the bike rental business.
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Tumbleweeds down State Street: Economist Stephen Moore suggests disaster for Chicago with extended shutdown
Author of Trumponomics and economist Stephen Moore talked with AM560 radio host Dan Proft on the Chicago’s Morning Answer program on April 22 about the replenishment of the Payment Protection Program, the stay-at-home orders and what continued shutdown could mean for local businesses.
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Death rate isn't dropping in Chicago because of COVID-19 -- no matter what Facebook says
Despite what is being posted on Facebook, Chicago's death rate did not go down because of COVID-19.
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GOP congressional candidate: Lightfoot’s haircut ruling shows she is more 'image than substance'
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot this week was caught breaking her own directives over the coronavirus emergency when an innocent social media posting over the weekend by her hairdresser showed the two standing close together – neither wearing masks or other protective clothing.
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Mayor Lightfoot says Chicago should prepare for 40,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations, contradicting projections
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told NBC Chicago that the city needs to prepare for 40,000 hospitalizations due to COVID-19, contradicting statewide projections for less than 10,000, Wirepoints Founder Mark Glennon reported.
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Chicago FOIA requests going through for now, personal liberties restrictions eyed over COVID-19
The city of Chicago is fulfilling Freedom of Information requests by the public as normal for the time being.
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Lightfoot suspends ticketing, towing and debt collection through April 30
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced March 18 actions that will temporarily provide financial relief during the COVID-19 pandemic for residents who are cited for nonsafety violations.
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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot, with cover from liberal press, refuses to confront city’s violence, Fox News analyst says
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is “cut from the same cloth” as her predecessor Rahm Emmanuel for diverting attention away from the city’s tragic distinction of having more homicides than New York and Los Angeles combined, writes native Chicagoan Gianno Caldwell, a political consultant and Fox News political analyst.
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Wirepoints: Mayor Lightfoot’s State of the City speech doesn't address need for structural fixes
Government watchdog website Wirepoints laments Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first State of the City address doesn't acknowledge the structural fixes the city needs.
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Analysis: Over 30 years, Chicago lost 300,000 residents, but still hiked spending 60 percent
The City of Chicago will spend 60 percent more in 2019 than it did thirty years ago, in 1989, even though its population fell 11 percent over the same span. That's according to an analysis of city Annual Appropriation Ordinance documents by Chicago City Wire.
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Activist questions Lightfoot's fitness for office
Chicago activist Brian Quinn strongly questions if newly elected Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is in the right line of work.
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Chicago police union calls Lightfoot's 'clown' comments 'misguided and dangerous'
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s comments yesterday directed at FOP vice president Patrick Murray were “misguided and dangerous things to say to a 30-year veteran police officer and FOP representative, particularly at a time when the city is facing such chronic violent crime,” Chicago’s police union said in a statement.
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Chicago FOP appeals to Chicago residents to pressure Mayor Lightfoot to drop her 'biased' policies targeting police
The Chicago police union says that Mayor Lori Lightfoot is making the police the whipping boy for “chronic violence that permeates our city.”
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Chicago FOP urges Mayor Lightfoot not to settle civil cases of criminals exonerated for rape, murder
The Chicago Police Union believes that two exonerated criminals bringing civil actions against the city are guilty of their crimes and is asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot not to settle the cases, but fight them in public trials.
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Chicago’s incoming racial justice officer, Candace Moore, championed SB 100, other controversial equity causes
Chicago's incoming chief equity officer, Candace Moore, has fashioned much of her short legal career around a now repudiated Obama-era policy that racism is to blame for the inordinate disciplining and poor academic performances of many black students.
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Installing term limits could be the key for unlimited potential
As politicians fight to retain their positions in office, their constituents fight against the longest political tenures in the history of the country.