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Cannabis Resource Fair panel will embrace Mayor Lori
Mayor Lori Lightfoot will headline a panel dialogue Saturday kicking off town’s first Cannabis Resource Fair, the place Chicagoans can find out about employment alternatives within the weed trade and the method for having pot-related offenses wiped from their information. The free occasion, set for 10 a.m. on the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt, will characteristic 65 companies, organizations and nonprofits working in and across the pot trade, in line with an announcement from the mayor’s workplace. Thirty-five of them shall be accepting purposes and resumes from attendees. “Ensuring this emerging industry brings unprecedented economic and social benefits to our communities has been at the heart of our efforts since day one,” Lightfoot mentioned. “By
Bill McCaffrey fired by Mayor Lori Lightfoot after elevating
Longtime City Hall spokesman Bill McCaffrey was fired Friday after elevating moral issues with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s workplace. A supply near the ex-spokesman advised the Chicago Sun-Times McCaffrey was abruptly escorted out of the town Law Department workplace, the place he labored because the $126,504-per-year public affairs director. ”Bill McCaffrey is now not with the Office of the Corporation Counsel,” Lightfoot’s workplace mentioned in a press release Saturday. “As this is a personnel matter, we will not be commenting further.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Video of officer bodyslamming man
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday decried a newly surfaced video that exhibits a CPD officer bodyslamming a person to the bottom as “very disturbing.” In a sequence of tweets, Lightfoot mentioned she expects the investigation into the police use of pressure will probably be “comprehensive and expedited so that the public may gain a complete picture of what happened.” “While a single video does not depict the entirety of the interactions between the police and the individual, this particular video is very disturbing,” the mayor tweeted. Shortly earlier than four p.m. on Thursday, Chicago law enforcement officials noticed a 29-year-old man ingesting alcohol at a bus cease within the 700 block of East 79th Street and
After Mayor Lightfoot explodes over Ivanka Trump tweet,
WASHINGTON – After Ivanka Trump’s tweets about violence in Chicago sparked an indignant response from Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday, the daughter and high adviser to the president tried to restrict the harm, providing an olive department to maintain a brand new relationship intact. A White House official advised the Chicago Sun-Times that Ivanka Trump desires to work with City Hall to plan an “event surrounding workforce development and economic opportunity in Chicago,” and “we are hopeful that Mayor Lightfoot is a catalyst for change in the city.” Moreover, after Lightfoot’s scorching feedback - and the mayor reaching out to the White House - Ivanka Trump’s chief of workers, Julie Radford, phoned City
Mayor Lori Lightfoot kills long-term lease with non-public
The company that runs Chicago’s Southeast Side port killed a proposal to show it over to a non-public operator after Mayor Lori Lightfoot objected. Members of the Illinois International Port District board unanimously voted down a proposal to barter a grasp lease with Savage Services, a transportation and logistics firm based mostly in Midvale, Utah. It amounted to an about-face for an company that in March chosen Savage as its most well-liked bidder for the job of revitalizing operations. Board Chairman Michael Forde mentioned the mayor’s workplace voiced its objection and members agreed as a courtesy. “The mayor’s office was of the opinion that this was not in the long-term interests of the port,” Forde mentioned.