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Ferguson’s plan to shake up city politics is needed to keep elected leaders in check

Any initiative that aims to fix Chicago’s faulty political landscape and the uncontrollable rubber-stamp monster it nurtures with morsels of corruption is essential.

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Afternoon Edition: June 10, 2022

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Picture Chicago: The Sun-Times’ Photos of the Week

A wounded CPD officer returns home, Mayor Lori Lightfoot officially launches her re-election campaign, and a new trading floor opens at the Chicago Board of Trade.

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Lightfoot not the reformer she promised to be, former inspector general says

It might sound like sour grapes from a man who was pushed out. But former Inspector General Joe Ferguson says “relative to the rhetoric of the campaign, certainly performance has not lived up to” what she promised.

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Former watchdog launches venture to study Chicago’s government structure

Joe Ferguson’s 12-year run made him Chicago’s longest-serving watchdog. Now he wants to take a deeper look at the mayor’s office, city departments, the City Council, local government agencies under the mayor’s control — all to show it is “different from everywhere else” and how those differences…

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Deputy mayor for public safety leaving Lightfoot administration after one year

John O’Malley, leaving after just a year on the job, is expected to be replaced by Elena Goettrich, deputy director of prosecutorial strategies for the Chicago Police Department.

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Afternoon Edition: June 8, 2022

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19 seeking to replace departing City Council member Scott include his sister, chief of staff

The resignation of Ald. Michael Scott Jr. took effect last week. Scott told the Sun-Times he would be equally happy if the mayor chose either his sister, Monique Scott, or his chief-of-staff, Charles Rice, to fill his 24th Ward seat.

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One day after launching re-election bid, Lightfoot hits the campaign trail

“When I got into office, the people who were used to having their way, who were used to dominating our city — they wanted their city back and they’ve been fighting against us every single day,” the mayor told the breakfast crowd at Starlight Restaurant, 8300 S. Kedzie Ave.

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High school grad forgoing scholarship money to continue training as a welder: ‘College isn’t for everyone’

CHICAGO -- Quintin Scott graduated Sunday from Chicago’s Crane Medical Prep High School with a head start to becoming a professional welder and a direct pipeline to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

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Tough talk on crime won’t work

Mayor Lightfoot’s comments on bail fly in the face of centuries of American jurisprudence, which presumes a person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot releases video announcing bid for second term

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will ask voters to send her back to City Hall for a second term as head of the nation’s third-largest city, she made official Tuesday.

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Chief judge, ACLU fire back at Lightfoot for suggesting judges should assume defendants are guilty

Alexandra Block, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said it’s “sad to see a highly-trained lawyer and former prosecutor so badly mangle the meaning of our Constitution.”

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Facing stiff headwinds, Lightfoot launches campaign for a second-term

After a video release and fundraiser on Tuesday, the piece-by-piece rollout of a campaign that has long been a given continues Wednesday with kick-off on the West Side, flanked by a handful of alderpersons.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says People Charged With Violent Crimes Are Guilty Because Prosecutors Say So

"When those charges are brought, these people are guilty," Lightfoot said.

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Rubber stamp no more? City Council sheds reputation under Lightfoot, new report shows

From June 12, 2019 through March 23, 2022, Lightfoot survived 131 divided roll calls, according to the new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago. That’s compared to just 54 during the last of Richard M. Daley’s six terms and 67 divided roll calls during the first of Rahm…

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says people charged with violent crimes ‘are guilty’ and shouldn’t be released on bail pending trial

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot escalated her ongoing feud with the Cook County criminal courts system on Monday when she said judges shouldn’t allow people charged with violent crimes out on bail because they are guilty if they have been charged.

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Lightfoot unloads on criminal court judges after three police shootings in a week

“Given the exacting standards that the state’s attorney has for charging a case—which is proof beyond a reasonable doubt—when those charges are brought, these people are guilty,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “Of course they’re entitled to a presumption of innocence. Of course they’re entitled to…

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City program to pay for security cameras, lighting launched: Here’s how to apply

Mayor Lori Lightfoot opened applications to a new program Monday that will help Chicago homeowners and small business owners install security devices.

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Chicago police officer shot in Englewood neighborhood — second cop hit in less than a week

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was shot and seriously wounded Sunday afternoon during a brief gunbattle in the Englewood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.

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Handful of West Side alderpersons to stand with Lightfoot as she launches reelection bid Wednesday

Black Caucus Chair Jason Ervin (28th), Emma Mitts (37th) and Chris Taliaferro (29th) will be on hand for the mayor’s announcement.

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AIDS Garden Chicago dedicated along lakefront to honor those who died from disease

“We must never forget those we’ve lost,” said Yoni Pizer, board chair for AIDS Garden Chicago.

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Lightfoot sloughs off growing field of challengers, sets official campaign kickoff for next week

One day after Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th) entered the race with an attack on the incumbent’s “mean-spirited” and “uncollaborative” style of governing, Lightfoot took the growing field in stride.

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Northwestern Medicine to build $100 million urgent care center in Bronzeville

It is expected to serve more than 50,000 patients in Bronzeville and nearby communities every year. About 1,000 construction and 100 health care jobs will be created by the development.

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Son of former mayor joins growing field to unseat Lori Lightfoot

Ald. Roderick Sawyer’s father, Eugene Sawyer, was mayor in the late 1980s. Roderick Sawyer chairs the City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations and is a former chair of the council’s Black Caucus. He’s the fifth candidate seeking to deny Mayor Lori Lightfoot a second term.

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