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Enclosing Soldier Field and selling its naming rights proposed to keep Bears in Chicago

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot should consider renaming Soldier Field to raise money and “explore the feasibility” of enclosing the stadium with a dome or roof, an advisory panel she appointed to study Chicago’s museum campus recommended.

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Lightfoot gives green flag to NASCAR races: report

The Athletic, a website devoted to sports coverage, disclosed the apparent agreement between the Lightfoot administration and NASCAR with no mention of the specific route.

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Ald. James Cappleman to retire from the City Council

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she is not at all surprised that City Council turnover would follow the two-year pandemic. “I think we’ll see some others who may also say ... ‘It’s time for me to move in a different direction.’”

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How the Highland Park shooter temporarily escaped, a first-person account of the tragic scene and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Lightfoot, Kelly tout gun safety legislation, though admit it may not have prevented Highland Park parade massacre

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, among other things, enhances background checks for gun buyers age 18 to 21. and encourages states to enact “red flag” laws that can allow firearms to be temporarily confiscated from people deemed dangerous.

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Anna Valencia, once a rising political star, weighs city clerk re-election after losing badly in secretary of state race

Former state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias got 52.7% of the vote to Valencia’s 34.4% to succeed Jesse White as secretary of state.

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Cautious optimism as Chicago sees statistical decline in gun violence, even as downtown takes spotlight for crime in the first half of 2022

CHICAGO — Chicago entered the July Fourth weekend with some encouraging news: The unrelenting gun violence that the city has experienced over the previous two years continues to decline, with a double-digit decline in homicides, officials reported Friday.

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Bally’s, praised by labor here, faces strike threat in Rhode Island

The winner of the Chicago casino bid, who promised good labor relations here, nearly had to contend with a walkout over the July 4 weekend at its operation outside Providence.

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Chicago’s mayor and top cop vow heavy police presence headed into long holiday weekend

Last year, the July Fourth weekend was a bloodbath on Chicago streets with over 100 people shot, 19 of them killed. Thirteen children were among the wounded, five of them shot within a nine-hour period.

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Lightfoot uses wounding of police officer to sound the alarm — again — about post-pandemic surge in domestic violence

After a Chicago Police officer was ambushed while responding to a domestic violence call, Mayor Lori Lightfoot had the grim statistics at her fingertips. “Domestic-related” homicides by firearm and non-fatal shootings have increased by a staggering 125 percent since 2019.

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Illinois throws its hat into the ring for new federal health research agency

Illinois leaders are making the case that the Chicago area should be home to a new $1 billion federal agency focused on health research.

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‘Value’ proposition: Ex-CEO on how Chicago can woo new jobs

In light of employers moving in and out of Chicago, Harry Kraemer Jr. weighs in on what’s important to corporate leaders and how the city’s boosters can appeal to them.

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Trail-blazing Illinois women ‘beyond thrilled’ Justice Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on Supreme Court

Jackson, a federal judge since 2013, on Thursday became the first Black woman elevated to the nation’s highest court. Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that her “ascension to the bench now tells the world that the seemingly impossible is possible. So proud!”

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Pritzker’s Bailey gamble, Lightfoot’s choice words for Thomas, My Morning Jacket’s love for Chicago and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Lightfoot refuses to apologize for obscene reference to Clarence Thomas, uses attack in last-minute fundraising appeal

“Clarence Thomas has proven himself over and over again — particularly in that concurring opinion — that he is somebody who doesn’t care or respect the rights of anyone except for himself,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.

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Lightfoot’s reelection endorsed by Reps. Robin Kelly, Bobby Rush and Danny Davis

Mayor Lori Lightfoot locking in endorsements ahead of the 2023 mayoral election.

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Millionaire Chicago mayoral candidate to give away $2 million more in gas, groceries

CHICAGO — Millionaire mayoral candidate Willie Wilson is hosting more high-priced giveaways.

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Lightfoot vows to expand paid parental leave for city workers, conduct ‘pay equity’ audit

Chicago’s version of the “she-cession” was evident in the disproportionate job losses: there were 10,957 fewer men in the 2020 workforce compared to the year before the pandemic — but there were 36,092 fewer women.

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Safer bike lanes, with concrete curbs, coming to Chicago streets

A timeline to convert existing bike lanes this year was announced Wednesday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who also promised that by the end of 2023, concrete curbs will be in place at all existing lanes now protected by plastic bollards.

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Another Wilson giveaway: ‘Of course, I’m going to vote for him. Look who’s helping out.’

At yet another Willie Wilson giveaway on Wednesday, grocery shoppers praised the millionaire businessman and mayoral candidate, saying they would remember his charity at the voting booth next year.

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Catanzara blasts Lightfoot over comments about officers’ ‘incredible amount’ of time off

The mayor contends the amount of “respite baked into” the police contract makes Catanzara’s “narrative” about cops being worked “like mules” false.

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City rejects $500 million in asphalt bids over pollution concerns

McKinley Park’s MAT Asphalt, others will have to resubmit bids later this year after new public health recommendations are issued.

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Abortion ruling figures in new pitch for Chicago jobs

A letter from World Business Chicago, signed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other civic leaders, urges Fortune 500 companies to invest here because local laws respect worker diversity and impose fewer limits on abortions.

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