Lori Lightfoot

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared at a Cook County courtroom on Thursday as a suspect who allegedly threatened to kill her appeared before a judge in a status hearing, NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared at a Cook County courtroom on Thursday as a suspect who allegedly threatened to kill her appeared before a judge in a status hearing.

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared at a Cook County courtroom on Thursday as a suspect who allegedly threatened to kill her appeared before a judge in a status hearing.

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is heading to the east coast.

Though Chicago welcomes new arrivals, “we’ve reached a breaking point” with a new surge expected later this week, Lightfoot said at an afternoon news conference.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an emergency declaration Tuesday after what she said was a “surge” of new migrant arrivals in the last month, leaving hundreds of people and families living out of police stations, city buildings and other temporary shelters after being “inhumanely bussed to Chicago” from Texas. Vi Nguyen has more on a developing story.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot began her final week in office by bidding farewell to city politics, but had plenty to say about her four years in City Hall. Regina Waldroup has more.

At the start of her final week as mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot delivers a farewell speech to the city she served for the last four years.

In a “midyear” budget forecast released Tuesday, the lame-duck mayor argues that she is handing off a budget shortfall to mayor-elect Brandon Johnson of just $85 million.

Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson met at City Hall on Thursday, marking the beginning of the transition between the two administrations, NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

The Chicago Transit Authority has been exploring the idea of extending the Red Line south from 95th Street for years, but that vision could be taking a significant step closer to reality thanks to a massive influx of funds from President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes, making history as the first incumbent not to make a runoff election in the city.

Experts weigh in on where Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s campaign fell short as she battles for the second spot in a runoff election, on the verge of making the wrong kind of history.

After federal officials cited studies linking the use of natural-gas stoves with childhood asthma, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office is reportedly helping draft an ordinance to ban the appliances in new construction in the city.

The Chicago Board of Ethics on Monday asked inspectors general for the city and Chicago Public Schools to investigate Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s re-election campaign to determine if the campaign violated the city’s ethics ordinance by recruiting student volunteers at CPS and City Colleges in exchange for class credit.

The City of Chicago announced in December its first annual “You Name a Snowplow Contest,” encouraging residents to “use their ingenuity and imagination to create snowplow names.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke to reporters Thursday in an effort to explain how an email was sent to Chicago Public Schools teachers asking for students to help with her mayoral campaign, sparking fierce backlash and putting her campaign under investigation.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke to reporters in an effort to explain how an email was sent to Chicago Public Schools teachers asking for students to help with her mayoral campaign, sparking fierce backlash and putting her campaign under investigation.

After a controversial email to Chicago Public Schools teachers urged them to ask students to help with her mayoral campaign, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says that the note was a “mistake” and that her campaign will cooperate fully with any ethics investigation moving forward, NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

After a controversial email to Chicago Public Schools teachers urged them to ask students to help with her mayoral campaign, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says that the note was a “mistake” and that her campaign will cooperate fully with any ethics investigation moving forward.