Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared an emergency on Tuesday as the sanctuary city reaches breaking point while it struggles to cope with the influx of illegal immigrants bussed from Texas border towns. The emergency declaration comes as the number of individuals and family groups arriving in Chicago surges, the mayor’s office said in a […]
Is the law applied equally across the political spectrum? In the GOP’s probe into the Department of Justice, how did Attorney General Merrick Garland respond to questions from senators on the Hill? Calls are mounting for more information as the FBI doubles down on the COVID lab leak assessment. How is the White House responding […]
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Mar. 1, Attorney General Merrick Garland faced pressing questions from lawmakers as to whether the law has been applied equally across political ideologies. Senators asked Garland about the decision not to prosecute people who protested outside of Supreme Court Justices’ homes after the overturning of Roe v. Wade […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will lose her reelection bid, The Associated Press projects. Lightfoot, a Democrat, lost the race to former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who will be headed to a runoff election on April 4 after no candidates received a majority of votes. The race was officially […]
Chicago officials and leaders of the city’s teachers’ union have reached a deal that will see teachers return to classrooms on Tuesday. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) hammered out a pact after nearly a week of negotiations. CTU members voted last week to stop teaching in-person. CPS rejected an attempt […]
Chicago officials canceled classes citywide on Monday as they failed to reach a new agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). Union members voted last week to abruptly shift to virtual teaching, a move rejected by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Mayor Lori Lightfoot. City officials instead canceled classes and have been seeking to convince […]
Chicago leaders on Saturday forcefully rejected a teachers union proposal that would make classes virtual for at least four days. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said in a statement that leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) are not listening. “The best, safest place for kids to be is in school. Students need to […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that people will have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter restaurants, bars, and gyms—becoming the latest city to mandate a vaccine passport. “Despite our diligent and equitable vaccine distribution efforts throughout this year, unfortunately, our city continues to see a surge of COVID-19 Delta and now Omicron cases,” […]
A judge in Illinois on Friday ordered the head of the Chicago police union to stop encouraging members not to get a COVID-19 vaccine, just hours before the city’s deadline for officers took effect. Cook County Circuit Judge Cecilia Horan issued the ruling after a lengthy emergency hearing on a request for injunctive relief that […]
In Florida, new dashcam footage shows two police officers being ambushed and attacked at a traffic stop. Miraculously, they both survived. However, this is not an isolated incident. According to the National Fraternal Order of Police, ambush-style attacks against the police have almost doubled this year. This reality has prompted the mayor of Chicago, Lori […]
CHICAGO—Three undercover law enforcement officers were shot and wounded Wednesday morning while driving onto an expressway on Chicago’s South Side, police said. The shooting occurred at 5:50 a.m. near the 22nd District police station in the city’s Morgan Park neighborhood. The three were in an unmarked undercover vehicle on their way to an assignment when […]
Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot of “blatant anti-white racism” Friday for only granting one-on-one interviews to “black and brown” reporters. “Mayor Lightfoot’s blatant anti-white racism is abhorrent,” Gabbard, a fellow Democrat, said. “I call upon President Biden, Kamala Harris, and other leaders of our county—of all races—to join me in […]
Chicago’s mayor has created a commission to review monuments deemed controversial in an effort to find “new ways to memorialize Chicago’s true and complete history.” A political science professor speaks on the impact of taking down statues, and what type of discussion would be constructive.
CHICAGO—The Chicago Teachers Union has approved a deal with the nation’s third-largest school district to get students back to class during the coronavirus pandemic, union officials announced early Wednesday. The vote by the union’s roughly 25,000 members ends the possibility of an immediate teacher lockout or strike. The agreement follows months of negotiations—which had intensified […]
Two Christopher Columbus statues were removed by city workers in Chicago in predawn hours, a win for Black Lives Matter demonstrators who recently tried tearing them down. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, ordered the removal of the statues, one in Grant Park and another in Little Italy. The move was made “in response to demonstrations […]
The mayor of Chicago said Tuesday that the Trump administration will deploy agents to Chicago, but that they won’t deploy unnamed federal Department of Homeland Security agents, as seen in Portland recently. “What I understand at this point, and I caveat that, is that the Trump administration is not going to foolishly deploy unnamed agents […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was caught on camera insulting a Chicago police veteran. On video from a city council meeting streamed to the Chicago Mayor’s Office Facebook page, Lightfoot can be heard saying “Oh, back again. This is that FOP clown” as the first-vice president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Patrick Murray, approaches […]
