Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was put on blast by critics for blaming her dwindling re-election prospects on race and gender instead of the city's crime crisis. "I'm a Black woman and, let's not ...

Black voters tend to favor Black incumbents such as Lightfoot. Yet the No. 1 criticism of the mayor is her failure to address the prevalent crime and violence, a deeply felt scourge in African ...

As Lori Lightfoot completed her ascension Monday from a long-shot candidate to Chicago’s first black woman and openly gay mayor, the former federal prosecutor stood in front of thousands at a ...

Lori Lightfoot made Chicago history twice over Tuesday night: She became the city’s first black female mayor as well as the city’s first openly gay mayor. Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former ...

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell called out Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot as a “racist” for openly discriminating against White reporters by refusing any interviews from such ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after being sworn in as mayor on May 20, 2019. Lori Lightfoot has officially been inaugurated, becoming the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chicago.

It was a stunning rebuke. On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, the first Black woman and first openly L.G.B.T.Q. person to lead the city, failed to advance to a runoff, earning just 17 ...

CHICAGO — Voters in Chicago on Tuesday elected former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot to become their next mayor, making Chicago the largest city to elect an African-American woman as its top ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot notably said “I am a black woman — let’s not forget” after she blamed her election loss on voters.

Lightfoot, a Black woman, says she’s the latest Black politician to have been demonized by the old, racist dirty trick of having her picture darkened in a negative political ad.

Lori Lightfoot kisses her wife, Amy Eshleman, after being elected Chicago's first black gay woman mayor. KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images But focus on just the black supporters in that room and ...

Chicago will swear in its first black female and first openly gay mayor Monday, concluding Lori Lightfoot's astonishing, yearlong rise from near anonymity to leader of the nation's third-largest city.