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Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt covered Mayor Lori Lightfoot throughout her short political career in Chicago. He’s chronicled Lightfoot’s rise and fall in a new book, “The City is Up ...
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is officially a college lecturer — at least for a semester — as her graduate-level class on “health policy and leadership” at Harvard University got ...
For Halloween 2020, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (left) and Allison Arwady, the city’s health commissioner, dressed up in costume to promote pandemic precautions for trick-or-treaters. Ashlee Rezin/Sun ...
CHICAGO — Former mayor Lori Lightfoot is headed to Boston in the fall to teach at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she announced Thursday. "I've always loved teaching, and the ...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's time as mayor of Chicago will end on Monday as Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is inaugurated, ending her term fraught with several controversies relating to crime, the pandemic ...
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 ...
David Axelrod writes that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her reelection bid because of her clenched-fist, go-it-alone style of leadership that made consensus hard to build and drove many who ...
Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid on Tuesday. Getty Images. In the first three weeks of 2023, crime rates skyrocketed by 61% compared to the previous year.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night rally at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North after conceding to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson. Ashlee Rezin.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fighting for re-election Tuesday after a history-making but tumultuous four years in office and a bruising campaign threaten to make her the city ...
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 ...
Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, was down in the polls and scrapping for votes. Three weeks before the election, with eight opponents aiming to deny her a second term, she stepped out of a ...