Mayor Lori Lightfoot mentioned Wednesday she has “great plans for re-introducing Chicago to the nation” mid-summer and into the autumn that features a “re-union weekend” to inspire African-Americans who've fled Chicago to “come back home.” Lightfoot introduced a sneak peek at her plans to rebuild a Chicago financial system ravaged by means of the coronavirus pandemic whilst moderating a digital panel she referred to as, “Cup of Joe.” It was once an area, Inauguration Day model of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, and featured Chicago industry and neighborhood leaders and activists discussing their hopes and goals for the incoming Biden management. Carlos Nelson, CEO of the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation, set the level for Lightfoot’s preview when he talked concerning
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot apprehensive about ‘distraction’ of
Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated Monday President Donald Trump can't be allowed to “burn down every bridge on his way out of office,” however a 2nd impeachment that’s nonetheless pending when Joe Biden is inaugurated isn't what a divided country must heal. “We need to turn the page from this horrible, hideous chapter in our history. … We need to start a new administration with a new set of valuables and principles that reconnect with each other as Americans, as residents of this great country,” Lightfoot instructed newshounds at an unrelated information convention at the sluggish reopening of Chicago Public Schools. “I worry about the potential for distraction.” Lightfoot argued Trump dedicated a “criminal act” by way of encouraging those
Top Lightfoot aide apologizes for scotch-and-cigars comic story
A most sensible mayoral aide apologized Wednesday for creating a comic story out of the 11-day lecturers strike — by means of sending an electronic mail providing to wager Mayor Lori Lightfoot and most sensible mayoral aides about when the strike would finish. ”My electronic mail mirrored a failed try on my section to inject some levity right into a top tension, hectic and critical scenario,” Mike Frisch, the mayor’s leader in-house exertions negotiator, was once quoted as announcing in a remark launched by means of the mayor’s workplace. “There was no actual bet. This was intended to be a joke that clearly did not land. It was in poor taste, and I apologize.” Although Lightfoot was once amongst those
Lightfoot orders elimination of statues of Christopher Columbus,
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has known as for the elimination of 2 monuments to Christopher Columbus after violent clashes between police and protesters broke out closing week when activists tried to rip down a statue of the Italian explorer in Grant Park. Ald. Brian Hopkins (second) instructed the Chicago Sun-Times past due Thursday that Lightfoot made “a unilateral decision” to take down that statue and every other situated in Arrigo Park at the Near West Side. Hopkins mentioned the aim was once to have them got rid of Thursday night time. “At this hour, there is discussion about postponing the removal, but the mayor has not indicated any reversal of her decision,” he mentioned. The mayor’s workplace didn’t reply
Lightfoot, Brown condemn every other weekend of slain kids;
In what’s develop into a macabre regimen, town leaders Monday discovered themselves compelled to lament, mourn and condemn the weekend killings of a number of kids in Chicago. Shootings over the Fourth of July vacation weekend left 15 other people useless and every other 64 wounded within the town, in keeping with a tally maintained through the Chicago Sun-Times. Two of the ones killed had been children: 7-year-old Natalia Wallace in Austin and 14-year-old Vernado Jones Jr. in Englewood. It was once the 3rd consecutive weekend in Chicago through which a minimum of two kids had been slain, although each Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. David Brown suggested the general public not to “normalize these circumstances.”
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Lightfoot proposes moratorium on eviction of tenants
Chicago landlords can be prohibited from evicting tenants whose funds had been impacted by means of the coronavirus pandemic with out first looking to negotiate with them, underneath a mayoral plan tailored to stave off a wave of evictions. With Cook County judges poised to renew eviction and foreclosures hearings on July 6, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has crafted a so-called “eviction protection” ordinance to decelerate the ones court cases. The City Council’s Housing Committee is poised to approve the plan Monday, adopted by means of a complete Council vote Wednesday. The mayor’s plan would limit landlords from evicting with out first ready 5 days for the tenant to ship a “Notice of COVID-19 impact” that outlines task loss, lowered