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An elderly couple from Portage Park received the vaccine Thursday morning.
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"The mayor issued a call to action for Chicago companies to bring jobs directly to the communities that need them and we are answering that call," said Roger Hochschild, Discover’s CEO and president.
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He bought a summer home in Michigan with an unrecorded loan from Washington Federal Bank for Savings and now is under investigation for claiming deductions on his tax returns for interest authorities found he never paid, sources tell the Sun-Times.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted a happy birthday video Thursday on the city’s 184th birthday. The tweet was removed after the Sun-Times asked about the mistake.
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Community members are urging Mayor Lori Lightfoot to honor her campaign promise to support an elected board to oversee Chicago Public Schools.
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No-knock warrants will be strictly prohibited except in "specific cases where lives or safety are in danger." But the attorney for the social worker targeted in a botched CPD raid said the mayor’s changes fall "woefully short."
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But will fans be able to watch baseball in person at Wrigley — or Guaranteed Rate Field — this season? Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday said it’s going to happen, but she didn’t say how soon.
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"Every woman who has been sexually harassed in a workplace setting, as I have been, understands how difficult it is for a woman to come forward and to speak her truth," the mayor said.
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Financial navigators like Carolina Guzman go over residents’ debt, income and puts them on a financial plan while also finding social programs to help pay for things like utility bills and rent.
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Besides eased capacity restrictions, Illinois Restaurant Association President Sam Toia wants restaurant employees to be vaccinated faster by including them in category 1B, which also covers grocery store workers.
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Joseph E. Garcia was accused in a 2019 indictment of submitting bogus documents and falsely claiming to have inspected home-repair projects done for low-income Chicago homeowners, giving City Hall the go-ahead to pay a contractor.
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"We will put it to work as soon as we get it," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday. "And it gives us obviously another tool to use to get people vaccinated. So we’re excited for that opportunity."
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Chicago and Cook County are doing just that. Ellyson Carter, 63, is among those who signed up despite being "a little apprehensive. But I want to be a part of what makes this nation heal."
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot was confident she would get her way 48 hours after two City Council critics used a parliamentary maneuver to delay the vote. And she was right.
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Joe and Rayne Bozeman recounted a banking odyssey that took them from Chase Bank to Wintrust Bank to Rocket Mortgage — with different denial explanations at every stop.
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The Chicago Police Department refused to say what types of major events Mayor Lightfoot is contemplating.
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City Hall says the decision to start ticketing motorists caught driving 6 mph to 10 mph over the posted speed limit was triggered by a 45% surge in traffic fatalities, but Ald. Anthony Beale doesn’t buy it. It’s about generating more revenue for the city, he said.
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If she takes the plunge, Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) would join a field of candidates that includes City Clerk Anna Valencia and former State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough is also considering a run.
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The Chicago Fire Department says the truck is being moved as part of an effort to improve overall fire coverage of the South Side.
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Chicago ended 2020 with 22 fire deaths, half as many as in 2019. But as of Feb. 25 there have been 13 fire fatalities this year. That alarms retiring Fire Commissioner Richard Ford II.
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The mayor says she wants to improve environmental conditions on the Southeast Side but wouldn’t immediately agree to deny the metal shredder’s permit.
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After aldermen Edward Burke (14th) and Ray Lopez (15th) moved to postpone a vote on CARES Act funding, Lightfoot adjourned Wednesday’s meeting and summoned the City Council back at 3 p.m. Friday.
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As Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez concluded remarks on a Black History Month resolution, Lightfoot can be heard muttering, "You’ve got to be f---ing kidding me." Lightfoot quickly texted Sanchez, telling her the profane remark had nothing to do with what the alderman was saying.
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The plan proposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot would impose a $15,000 surcharge for demolishing a "detached house, townhouse or two-flat" and a $5,000-per-unit fee for tearing down "multi-unit residential buildings."
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Anjanette Young thanked the aldermen for championing her cause in a way that will "foster a better sense of safety for all families in Black and Brown communities."
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The state’s attorney’s changed position regarding Joseph Hurst’s release marks the second time in less than a year she’s done that in a case involving a convicted cop-killer.
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The ordinance backed by Ald. Gilbert Villegas stalled last year amid opposition from Fire Commissioner Richard Ford II and Public Safety Committee Chairman Chris Taliaferro. But after Villegas made some changes, it passed.
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"Many people are one paycheck away from being homeless, this is horrifying...this is a fight for every Chicagoan to take seriously," said Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th).
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A jury in 2017 found that onetime Chicago Police Officer Patrick Kelly shot his friend, Michael LaPorta, while off-duty. But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Kelly "was not acting as a Chicago police officer but as a private citizen" when LaPorta was shot.
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Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) led the campaign to eliminate exceptions in the ordinance that had allowed Chicago police officers to cooperate with federal immigration officials in some situations.
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The mayor says she’s told the White House Lausch has done a "terrific job" as top federal prosecutor in Chicago and it makes "zero sense" to replace him, particularly headed into the usual summer spike in violent crime.
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Ald. Brendan Reilly says he was standing outside Boss Bar, 420 N. Clark St., Thursday night when a man yelled at him from the street. The next thing the alderman knew, the man was trying to punch him in the head.
