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Gregory Royal Pratt

2 months

Read @chicagotribune excerpt from "The City is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis.” “They won’t burn my city down,” a look behind the scenes at 2020 riots and MLL City Hall. Check it out and preorder

Gregory Royal Pratt: ‘They won’t burn my city down.’ How Mayor Lightfoot handled the rioting in...

Tribune reporter Gregory Royal Pratt recounts and assesses the complex legacy of Lori Lightfoot, a controversial mayor.

www.chicagotribune.com

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3 years

I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.

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As ⁦ @chicagosmayor ⁩ reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said teachers who do not come into work tomorrow will be put on no pay status.

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NEWS: A lawsuit against the city by a former Park District attorney alleges that Mayor Lori Lightfoot berated staff in obscene terms over Columbus statue, told them “My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago.”

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A colleague sent me this 2020 email from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. I could teach a journalism class about it.

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BREAKING: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will order all restaurants across the state to be closed to dine-in customers in a further attempt to curb the coronavirus. Delivery and drive up will remain open. This’ll be effective end of business tomorrow. @chicagotribune

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NEWS: Mayor Brandon Johnson has started a group to explore the possibility of a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago, a city with vast stretches on South and West Side without good shopping options.

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Wow: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s law department went to court to try and stop @cbschicago from airing video of Chicago police raiding a social worker’s home. She was changing and naked; police refused to give her the video until a judge ordered them to.

'You Have the Wrong Place:' Body Camera Video Shows Moments Police Handcuff Innocent, Naked Woman...

For the first time, police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered her home with guns drawn and handcuffed her...

www.cbsnews.com

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Another small note from City Hall: As Mayor Lightfoot remains in a dispute with CTU over CPS remote learning and reopening, her chief of staff quietly extended work from home for MO staff at least another week.

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A longtime Lightfoot aide sums up her re-election loss: “Lessons: You can’t run on a platform and then completely abandon it. You can’t run against the status quo, and then fill your administration with the status quo. And you can’t be mean to everyone who tries to help you.”

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Highland Park mass shooting update: Family calls police to say man threatened to "kill everyone." They take his knives. Father, however, later sponsors son's application for a gun permit. State gives it to him, couldn't prove he was dangerous. This is America

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NEWS: Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker has signed the bill creating an elected school board for Chicago, a measure vigorously opposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot

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3 years

All Chicagoans living in 60608, 60652, 60620, 60619 and 60649 -- mostly South Side and Southwest Side neighborhoods -- are eligible for the vaccine at the United Center. Make an appointment 312-746-4835

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After a news conference decrying house parties and telling people to stay home, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot crossed the street to tell youth outside a school to go home. One young man responded: “Y’all need to find a cure, you’re talking about go home. You go home.”

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3 years

Mayor Lori Lightfoot was booed at the Chicago Cubs and White Sox home openers. She's a Sox season ticket holder.

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1 year

Paul Vallas said he rode the CTA “downtown” to Wrigley Field. Hmm

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1 year

NEWS: The AP is calling the Chicago mayor's race for Brandon Johnson.

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Brandon Johnson defeated Paul Vallas to become the next mayor of Chicago, a stunning rebuke of the political establishment by the unapologetically progressive Cook County commissioner whose campaign themes of racial justice and uplifting the working class caught fire.

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

1 year

NEWS: The AP is calling the Chicago mayor's race for Brandon Johnson.

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4 years

BREAKING: Mayor Lori Lightfoot plans to remove the controversial statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park as soon as Thursday night, in part to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police and protesters like the one that happened last week

Seeking to ‘protect public safety,’ Mayor Lori Lightfoot removes Christopher Columbus statues...

Hoping to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police and protesters like the clash that happened last week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered the statues of Christopher Columbus removed fro…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Ald. Sue Garza, once a close Mayor Lightfoot ally, said she won’t back her re-election: “I have never met anybody who has managed to piss off every single person they come in contact with -- police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, manufacturing, and that's it.”

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1 year

The annual County Treasurer Maria Pappas calendar is here

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Chicago looting: "I don't care, I do not care, whatever justification was given for this. There is no justification for criminal behavior, ever. You have no right to take and destroy the property of others. Our residents deserve to be safe."

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BREAKING: Trump's Homeland Security Department is making plans to deploy about 150 agents in Chicago this week, with the scope of their duty unknown. @chicagotribune with @JeremyGorner

Trump expected to send new federal force to Chicago this week to battle violence, but plan’s full...

Chicago may see an influx of federal agents as soon as this week as President Donald Trump readies to make good on repeated pledges he would try to tamp down violence here, a move that would come a…

www.chicagotribune.com

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2 years

Don’t be afraid to anger officials because they’ll cut your access somehow. There are thousands of sources and ideas in a bureaucracy, few good ones come from access. Just because the boss is mad doesn’t mean you can’t do your job. Institutions aren’t monolithic.

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NEWS: Gov. Pritzker has signed a bill restoring @CTULocal1 bargaining rights, and giving them the power to negotiate over a broader range of items -- a measure vigorously opposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

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1 year

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson on last night’s chaos in the Loop: “In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city. However, it is not constructive to demonize youth…”

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3 years

Just got this email via FOIA — more insight about City Hall staffing/turnover/culture under Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Read our May story also

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

3 years

About Mayor Lightfoot being hard to work with and that contributing to hiring/retention problems, see this email where she ripped up documents and sent staff a photo of it to illustrate her message: “I have asked nicely, now I am done.”

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I’m told it’s a somber mood in the East Bank Club sauna this morning.

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2 years

Six dead now. The suspect is at large: He is white, 18-20 years old, longer black hair, small build, wearing a white or blue t-shirt, police said.

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2 years

Five people have been killed and 16 taken to hospitals in the Highland Park Independence Day mass shooting, officials announce

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NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat in Chicago mayor race as voters Tuesday rejected her bid for a second term after four tumultuous years marked by a pandemic, spikes in crime citywide and widespread divisiveness.

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3 years

Rare personal opinion: El Milagro workers deserve anything they want for bringing us tortilla goodness

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ADL midwest regional director @dgoldenb5 : "The comparison of mandatory vaccinations to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust is factually incorrect and deeply offensive to the millions of innocent people killed at the hands of the Nazis," calls for apology, stop to offensive language

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NEWS: All Chicago mass vaccination sites will accept walk-in appointments starting Friday. This is great news as the city gets more shots

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NEWS: All Chicago residents are eligible to get vaccines at the United Ceter if they live in 60608, 60609, 60619, 60620, 60621, 60623, 60624, 60628, 60629, 60632, 60636, 60639, 60644, 60649, 60651, 60652, 60653. Call 312-746-4835

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Anjanette Young on national CBS news says she would've preferred all 12 officers get fired over her raid and get no money. She also criticized Lightfoot for how she handled case the week video came out, saying she "lied continuously the entire week" before retracting denials.

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2 years

Whole Foods is closing its Englewood store. What a punch in the gut for Chicago and the South Side

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4 months

The steam coming off Lake Michigan is incredible

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2 years

For government and public affairs people: Trying to cut off a reporter is generally unproductive. Trying to restrict the information that goes to the biggest newspaper in your area is self sabotage.

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Mayor Lightfoot greeting Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson as he comes in for a transition meeting

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Willie Wilson formally endorses Paul Vallas. Wilson also said Chicago Public Schools students “can’t read or write” and some can’t even tie their shoes while suggesting Johnson would be beholden to the teachers union.

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Highland Park mass shooting suspect at a 2020 Trump rally in a where’s Waldo costume from @chicagotribune archive

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AFSCME, union that represents more than 11,000 active and retired public service workers who live in the city of Chicago, endorses Brandon Johnson, first time they’ve weighed in since Harold Washington.

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Chicago FOP head John Catanzara melting down over vaccine mandate: “We’re in America goddamn it. We don’t want to be forced to do anything. Period. This ain’t Nazi fucking Germany (where they say) ‘Step into the fucking showers. The pills won’t hurt you.’ What the fuck?"

Chicago Sun-Times

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NEW: Mayor Lori Lightfoot forges ahead with an Oct. 15 vaccine mandate for all city employees over strenuous and united opposition from all four police unions.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants people charged with violent crime to stay behind bars: "When those charges are brought, these people are guilty." They have a presumption of innocence, she says, but the CCSAO's high standards mean they're guilty if they get charged.

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Brandon Johnson calls for reopening Chicago's mental health clinics that were closed by Rahm Emanuel.

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Hell hath no fury like aldermen drawing maps for people they're mad at

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1 year

For those of you with election fatigue, fear not... the Chicago mayor's race really begins tomorrow

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Mass shootings happen everywhere in America: Wealthy, middle class, poor; rural, suburban, urban. There’s one common denominator in all these shootings and it’s easy access to guns.

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I lost my wallet biking on Halsted in gym pants. A kid found it and texted me off my business card to give it back. Thankful for the act of kindness

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How history repeats itself: Mayor Rahm Emanuel mocked the people who were in race before he dropped out by saying none of them could win. Lori Lightfoot did. Four years later, Mayor Lightfoot mocked Brandon Johnson and said he wouldn't win mayor's race. He did.

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Lightfoot scoffing at CTU’s mayoral endorsement: “They’ve endorsed Brandon Johnson. God bless. Brandon Johnson isn’t going to be the mayor of this city.”

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2 years

NEWS: The city of Chicago will deny the permit moving General Iron to the Southeast Side, a huge victory for environmental activists who pressured Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration on the issue after the city signed preliminary deal in 2019.

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Driven/walked in Little Village, Lincoln Park, downtown, Humboldt Park and Logan Square — can’t recall the last time Chicago was this happy a city. It’s like a street festival everywhere.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot early voted and held a presser. Some people took photos and waved with her but one gentleman shouted at her, “You’re a bad mayor.”

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For the record, this is false. Johnson was giving a post-debate statement while you kept shouting comments, so he left. And no, you aren’t a tough guy because you made a spectacle and a fool of yourself. It was a disservice to the press and the public.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot has FIRED police superintendent Eddie Johnson for intentionally misleading the public and acting unethically in relation to the night where he was found asleep in his car after drinking. “Eddie Johnson intentionally lied to me,” she said.

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker just now making news: "I think everybody needs to think seriously about canceling any large summer events." "I do not see how we are going to have large gatherings of people again until we have a vaccine, which is months and months away."

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot rips @MaryAnnAhernNBC for asking if any members of her staff got vaccinated at Loretto Hospital: “The rumor that you have is utter bullshit.” She said she's offended, that the question attacks her integrity. A reminder: A reporter's jobs is to ask questions.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is trying to cut off Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez for talking about Anjanette Young, the woman whose home CPD wrongly raided. Lightfoot said the video was "upsetting" but she is telling him to "get the facts." What are the facts?

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot's week in a nutshell: She publicly blasted her chief of detectives, got in a protracted fight with the State's Attorney, and complained to President Biden that she wasn't scheduled to speak at an event in Elk Grove Village.

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3 years

Just read the filing: Lightfoot lawyers want the woman sanctioned because she allegedly gave the video to a news outlet despite a confidentiality order. So they want to punish her for sharing a video they didn’t want to give her because they feared she’d give it to media.

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

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Wow: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s law department went to court to try and stop @cbschicago from airing video of Chicago police raiding a social worker’s home. She was changing and naked; police refused to give her the video until a judge ordered them to.

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In an incredible display of I-don't-know-what, Ja'Mal Green says he is not conceding the mayor's race. He has 2 percent of the vote with 87 percent of precincts counted under unofficial results.

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Don’t take things personal when they’re good or when they’re bad. Reporting relationships have ups and downs. This was in a period where Mayor Lightfoot was upset with Tribune stories. It happens.

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Renaming Lake Shore Drive is the last thing people are worried about in the 17th Ward, @TheTRiiBE reports. “You can call Lake Shore Drive anything, [but] that’s not going to stop kids from being killed everyday.”

Lake Shore Drive just got a new name: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive • The TRiiBE

While Black alderpeople are fighting to rename Chicago’s most iconic street, neighborhood residents say they have “bigger fish to fry.”

thetriibe.com

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2 years

Cook County is also the wrongful convictions capital of the United States, in no small part due to a history of police misconduct in Chicago. "Everyone charged with <these crimes> is guilty" is particularly astonishing in this town.

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants people charged with violent crime to stay behind bars: "When those charges are brought, these people are guilty." They have a presumption of innocence, she says, but the CCSAO's high standards mean they're guilty if they get charged.

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We asked Mayor Lightfoot for an exit interview any time between March 14 and May 10. This is her press secretary’s response.

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Chicago gave Whole Foods $10 million in tax breaks to fund the store, which was meant to spur catalytic development in Englewood. Instead, the store is closing down.

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2 years

Whole Foods is closing its Englewood store. What a punch in the gut for Chicago and the South Side

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BREAKING: Illinois Gov. Pritzker will order all public and private schools closed, including Chicago Public Schools, starting on Election Day. They’ll be back on March 30.

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1 year

Chuy Garcia is endorsing Brandon Johnson today. It’s a big deal for the optics and idea of a multiracial coalition. It will also be interesting to see how Johnson does in wards Garcia won and whether the support carries over.

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NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration tried to block @cbschicago from airing body camera footage of police raid on wrong home. Victim’s lawyer told @chicagotribune it’s part of the city’s “history of attempting to cover up unfavorable video.”

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration tried to block TV station from airing body camera footage of...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Law Department attempted in court this week to block local news station WBBM-Ch. 2 from airing body camera footage of Chicago police officers raiding an innocent woman&…

www.chicagotribune.com

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To anyone talking about moving out of Chicago because of tomorrow’s election results: I’d be glad to come help you get your PlayStation out of your mom’s basement

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Whatever your politics, wherever you work, please know: A gutted @chicagotribune will be devastating to our city.

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Yikes: “They’re asking to keep all of the revenue from other events that might take place at the stadium. You know, if there’s a Beyoncé concert, they want all of that revenue too, and everything else that might happen there.”

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Pritzker calls some of Bears proposals ‘probably non-starters,’ refuses to divert state dollars intended for other purposes

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot orders all Chicago Public Schools teachers who don't have medical accommodations to come back to the classroom tomorrow, setting up potential lockouts by the district or other discipline and a strike.

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TV commentator Robert De Niro calling President Donald Trump a gangster is 2019 in 10 seconds

Oliver Darcy

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— @BrianStelter asks Robert De Niro about criticism he gets from Fox for speaking out against Trump. "Fuck em," De Niro replies. "Fuck em." Stelter reminds him, "This is cable, so it's not an FCC violation, but it is still a Sunday morning."

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Per @capitolfax Gov Pritzker’s administration has been offering CPS tests and other help for weeks but city hasn’t taken them up on it

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COVID-19 roundup

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Mayor Brandon Johnson criticizes reporter for referring to South Loop incidents as “mob actions.” Says it’s not appropriate to call children “baby Capones.”

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Wow: Illinois comptroller’s office employee fired over antisemitic comments in online exchange, including “Hitler should have eradicated all of you.”

Illinois comptroller’s office employee fired over antisemitic comments in online exchange

An employee of the Illinois comptroller’s office was fired Thursday after the office learned she had made antisemitic comments during an exchange on social media. The comments by the employee…

www.chicagotribune.com

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NEWS: Paul Vallas’ Facebook account liked posts criticizing Chicago as “hell hole” and attacking Democrats; one read “defund CPS.” He denies involvement, like with offensive Twitter likes. Our story @chicagotribune with @byaliceyin and @rap30

Paul Vallas Facebook account liked posts that called Chicago ‘hell hole,’ attacked Democrats, said...

Paul Vallas’ Facebook account liked a series of comments that attacked Democrats, referred to Chicago as a “hell hole” and “S—cago” and labeled Illinois Gov. J.B…

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In news that will probably only interest me, @JaymalGreen has limited who can reply to his tweets.

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Personal news: I am joining the @chicagotribune investigative team. Covering City Hall the past five years has been an honor and privilege. I feel good about the work I’ve done to inform, expose, and entertain, but it’s time for a new adventure.

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With 92 percent of the vote reported, Brandon Johnson leads Paul Vallas by about 7,000 votes out of 510,009 cast.

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👀 “For over 40 years, Chuy has been deeply involved with independent politics. Chuy served on his local city council, the county board of commissioners, and the state senate, before becoming a member of Congress. He's running for Mayor to lead our city through difficult times.”

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People storming the United States Capitol to prevent the presidential election from being finalized aren’t “protesters.”

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2 years

NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is implementing a 10pm curfew for Chicago teenagers on weekends.

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4 years

Mayor Lori Lightfoot just released a statement saying this is TEMPORARY — meaning the statue will be back. Chicago the only city I know of taking down Columbus for public safety reasons but claiming he’ll be back

Gregory Royal Pratt

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BREAKING: Mayor Lori Lightfoot plans to remove the controversial statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park as soon as Thursday night, in part to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police and protesters like the one that happened last week

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NEWS: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned aldermen who might vote against her budget, “Don’t come to me for s--- for the next three years” if they don’t support her spending plan, sources said. Their wards won’t be prioritized either, she said.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has delivered a warning to Chicago aldermen who might vote against her budget:...

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot works behind the scenes to muster the 26 votes she needs to pass her 2021 city budget, she has delivered a message to City Council members: Those who vote against her spendi…

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My condolences to Sam Zell’s loved ones. But I hope the obituaries deal honestly with the enormous civic damage Zell did to the city of Chicago and its people when he bankrupted the Tribune in 2008.

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For the first time: Brandon Johnson is now leading Paul Vallas. With 88 percent reporting, he's up 50.11 percent to 49.89 percent.

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3 years

Jeanette Taylor said she told Lightfoot, “Don’t talk to me like I’m a child.” “You saw me telling her to put her hands down. I’m a grown woman like she is,” Taylor said. “We are coworkers and clearly she doesn’t understand that and I’ll make her understand that.”

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3 years

Photo of the argument by @JoseMOsorio

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3 years

Do you know what Chicago Tribune reporters are going to do tonight? Put out the paper, which we’ve been doing for 174 years

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1 year

Brandon Johnson spent weeks accusing Paul Vallas of financial mismanagement. Now Johnson is facing questions about his failure to pay water bills on time, a late-breaking embarrassment. Here’s our story

Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson pays off more than $3,000 in water bill debts to the city

Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson paid off more than $3,000 in water and sewer bills to the city after facing criticism over his handling of his personal finances. The controversy erupted i…

www.chicagotribune.com

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3 years

NEWS: Chicago aldermen vote to rename Lake Shore Drive to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive in honor of the city’s Black founder.

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11 months

Personal news: I've written a book about Chicago City Hall and the past four years! "The City is Up for Grabs: How Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis." I'll let you know when it's up for preorder, still some work ahead. Thanks for all your support.

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2 years

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot responds to Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas writing about overturning gay marriage ruling, other important cases: “Fuck Clarence Thomas!” Clip is going viral in right wing circles.

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8 months

Mayor Lightfoot teaching press relations is an arsonist teaching fire safety.

Professor Lori Lightfoot is teaching Harvard students how to run a city in a pandemic

The former mayor recently started lecturing at the university’s Boston campus, saying she’ll teach about how to deal with the media and run a city in a crisis.

www.wbez.org

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2 years

Beautiful day in Chicago, wedding on a boat

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4 years

Four Chicago aldermen have filed notice to force a special meeting of the City Council to address looting and call for the National Guard to be deployed. Those aldermen are Raymond Lopez, Leslie Hairston, Anthony Napolitano and Anthony Beale.

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4 years

NEWS: Chicago Public Schools may announce an all-remote learning plan to start the school year as soon as Wednesday, a move that could avert a potential strike from the Chicago Teachers Union, sources said.

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3 years

NEWS: Chicago bars and restaurants can now increase to 50 percent capacity, remain open until 1am, and liquor stores can now sell until 11. Also, indoor fitness class sizes can include 20 people.

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10 months

Going to pour one out for Lakeview tonight (we should be covering crime and chaos but this hyperbole doesn’t serve anyone; I’m otherwise a fan of our friends at WGN)

WGN TV News

@WGNNews

10 months

Hundreds of teens takeover Lakeview, destroying neighborhood

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3 years

In my 3 years covering Chicago City Hall I’ve reported on three aldermen who were indicted, one aldermen whose ward office was raided, and another who wore a wire after the feds caught him trading favors for viagra. Now a Daley. Good lord, this town

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