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Lightfoot: Parents, not just police, need to hold kids responsible for roaming streets after curfew

“I say this as the parent of a 14-year-old, we have to make sure that we know where our kids are, that we are telling them right from wrong at the earliest possible age,” Lightfoot said at a community meeting Monday.

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City to help pay for home security cameras, which CPD hopes to add to its network

Rebates to cover their cost were announced Monday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. They also can be used for outdoor motion sensor lighting and GPS trackers for cars.

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General Iron eyes return to Lincoln Park

Owner Reserve Management applied for permits to reopen the North Side scrap yard after a planned move to the Southeast Side was rejected by the city, but Ald. Hopkins says “under no circumstances.”

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A federal case: U.S. government shouldn’t wreck two Loop skyscrapers in the name of safety

The buildings’ demolition would create an economic and pedestrian dead zone on State Street. And it would be a shameful waste of some really good Chicago architecture.

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Afternoon Edition: April 1, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Emails show Cardinal Blase Cupich helped Mayor Lori Lightfoot shape COVID message

‘You might want to rethink this sentence,’ the cardinal tells the mayor at one point, according to their pandemic correspondence, obtained by the Sun-Times.

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¿'Fuga de cerebros' en la policía de Chicago? Las jubilaciones se estabilizaron, pero 660 policías se jubilaron en 2021

CHICAGO— El agente Mahir "Mike" Affaneh entró en pánico cuando escuchó a la alcaldesa de Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, declarar en octubre que los agentes podrían quedarse sin sueldo si se negaban a vacunarse.

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5,000 bikes, helmets, locks to be given away by city

Transportation Commissioner Gia Biagi revealed the giveaway at the City Club of Chicago. No details were provided; a department spokeswoman said the city will “co-design the program in partnership with community organizations over the next year,”

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City of Chicago to distribute prepaid gas, transit cards in response to soaring gas prices

The city of Chicago plans to make available $12.5 million in prepaid gas and public transit cards in an effort to address soaring gas prices, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday.

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Afternoon Edition: March 31, 2022

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Chicago should host 2024 Democratic National Convention, mayor says

After touting Chicago’s abundance of hotel rooms, an array of world-class restaurants and “arts and culture” second to none, the mayor added: “I will also say, we’re a really fun city in the summer time.”

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Free gas, CTA cards part of new city program for residents

The city will provide $150 prepaid gas cards and $50 prepaid cards for use on public transit to applicants who live in the city, have a valid vehicle sticker and meet income guidelines.

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Lightfoot shifts gears — to gas cards and Ventra credits — to provide relief for struggling commuters

Last week, the City Council’s Finance Committee abruptly canceled a hearing on Lightfoot’s plan reduce the city’s gas tax. Now, the mayor is talking about offering gas cards to motorists and Ventra card credits to CTA riders.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot again says Christopher Columbus statue will return to Grant Park. But almost 2 years after its removal, will it?

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-delayed review of Chicago monuments still isn’t completed, but the mayor has restated her controversial pledge to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its prominent pedestal in Grant Park — the site of a bloody battle between police and demonstrators nearly two years ago.

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Chicago police ‘brain drain’? Retirements have stabilized, but 660 cops retired in 2021

CHICAGO — Officer Mahir “Mike” Affaneh panicked after he heard Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot make a statement in October that officers might have to go on a no-pay status if they refused to be vaccinated.

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Pritzker, Lightfoot, Duckworth working on pitch for 2024 Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is working with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s team and a litany of other top Democrats in the state to start laying the extensive groundwork needed to put together a bid for what would the city’s first major political convention since 1996.

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Lightfoot chooses Deborah Witzburg as new city inspector general

The overriding question was whether Lightfoot was willing to appoint Deborah Witzburg even though she was chosen by former Inspector General Joe Ferguson, with whom the mayor clashed repeatedly and ultimately forced out.

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Columbus could return to Grant Park, but what about other “problematic” public monuments?

A report from the mayor’s public monuments advisory committee, kept under wraps, must now be made public

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Afternoon Edition: March 29, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Willie Wilson to announce April 11 if he’s running for mayor against Lightfoot

Wilson, who has held four town hall meetings on a possible mayoral campaign, sounds like he’s already made up his mind to challenge Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whom he endorsed in the April 2019 runoff, and is just waiting until next month to make the official announcement.

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Mayor, top cop urge new police officers to get to know their communities, take care of themselves

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Supt. David Brown spoke Tuesday during a police graduation ceremony at Navy Pier.

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Tempestuous tenure of ‘Jane Byrne’

New WTTW documentary, airing Friday, a reminder that the problems of the past are still with us.

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Officer shot, second pinned between cars during West Side traffic stop and ‘exchange of gunfire’ with suspect

CHICAGO — Two Chicago police officers were injured during a West Side traffic stop Monday night and one of those officers shot and wounded a man who had been in the vehicle that was pulled over, according to police.

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Scrap plan to cut city’s fuel tax by three cents

Such a move by the mayor, tempting as it may be, would rob $18 million from the city’s bridge maintenance, street paving and snow removal budget,

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Lightfoot ‘fully expects’ Columbus statue to be returned to Grant Park pedestal

But first, the mayor wants a plan to prevent a repeat of the July 2020 protest that injured dozens of officers. And the leader of on Italian American group said Monday the return of another Columbus statue to Arrigo Park is just as vital.

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