The Latest Breaking News from Lori Lightfoot

Rather than risk yet another confrontation with the Chicago Teachers Union, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Pedro Martinez will follow the agreement they struck with CTU to end a dispute that canceled classes for five days last month.

Any two City Council members — no reason needed — can delay a vote for one meeting. Ald. George Cardenas expects that stalling tactic to be used to delay a vote on s proposal to sue gangs and seize their assets.

Joseph Igartua repeatedly drove around Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square and tried to deliver a "rambling" letter while he was armed with a handgun, a source said.

Chicagoans should not be put on the hook to keep a $4 billion sports franchise from skipping town.

CHICAGO — Leaders in Chicago’s Chinatown and beyond clamored Tuesday for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to appoint an Asian-American successor to 11th Ward Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, whose federal tax fraud conviction this week could pave the way for the Near South Side enclave to have its first City Hall representative…

The City Council’s Committee on Public Safety will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday to consider the revised ordinance that got a frosty reception from alderpersons last month.

CHICAGO — Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was convicted by a federal jury Monday of filing false tax returns and lying to federal regulators about a line of credit he had with a failed Bridgeport bank.

Last year, the mayor unveiled a plan to confront gender-based violence and human trafficking. It was designed with input from survivors and supported by $25 million in "new investments" made possible by federal relief funds.

City officials last week said they’d follow the state’s lead in lifting a mask mandate by Feb. 28 — unless COVID-19 numbers worsened. Now, though citing "tremendous progress" against the Omicron surge, the mayor doesn’t want to set what she called an "artificial date."