Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, D, told South Side voters they should not vote at all if they do not vote to re-elect her, but she now insists that she misspoke during the heat of the moment. During ...

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 ...

Progressive Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been secretly protected by a specialist squad of more than 70 cops — one set up the same year she pushed to slash $80 million from the police budget ...

A Chicago reporter who filed a lawsuit against Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot for allegedly silencing him by pulling his city press credentials fired back at her yet again in a fierce exchange at ...

A squad car in former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s security detail was struck by a bullet early Saturday in Logan Square. On-duty officers were in the unmarked squad car about 3:15 a.m. in the 3400 ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended her decision to grant interviews on her two-year anniversary in office only to journalists of color, saying it was intended as an effort to confront the ...

Lori Lightfoot rode into the Chicago mayor’s office in 2019 as a reform candidate, offering a break from the city’s clubby political scene while making history as the first Black woman and ...

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 ...

Still navigating the Covid-19 pandemic and the record surge in violence that came with it, Lori Lightfoot is past her halfway point as Chicago’s mayor. While some find her methods controversial ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago First Lady Amy Eshleman are getting into the Halloween spirit – safely. In a new video message posted Sunday on Twitter, the couple dressed up as ...

CHICAGO — Lori Lightfoot, who ran for Chicago’s top job as a first-time reform candidate with few ties to the city’s entrenched political structure, was sworn in as its 56th mayor Monday ...

Lori Lightfoot is the first black woman, and the first openly gay person, to become Chicago’s mayor. So, who is she? Lightfoot is a lawyer and former president of the Chicago Police Board.