CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election Tuesday, ending her historic run as the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the position.

Chicago's outgoing mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared to make a pivot on her ultra-progressive stance on violence, urging Democrats to "speak the truth" on surging crime across the country.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s failure to advance to a runoff election Tuesday represents an astonishing fall from power four years after she was ushered into City Hall with a promise of reform ...

CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker pushed back Monday on a threat by President Donald Trump to deploy federal troops in ...

Under Lightfoot’s tenure, Chicago was rocked by crime - similar to other cities across the nation in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and when pandemic restrictions upended day-to-day life.

Military members could soon be patrolling city streets in Chicago, as per potential plans from the Trump Administration that ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and incoming mayor-elect Brandon Johnson just had their first official meeting. Johnson, 47, a former teacher and Cook County Board Commissioner, caught the nation’s ...

Lightfoot lost her re-election bid this week, receiving just a putrid 16.4% of the vote, finishing behind former head of Chicago Public Schools Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon ...

Lightfoot criticized Vallas as too conservative for Chicago and for welcoming support from the police union's controversial leader, who defended the Jan. 6 insurrectionists at the Capitol and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In a historic moment, Lori Lightfoot was sworn in Monday as Chicago's 56th mayor, the city's first African American woman and the city's first openly gay person to hold the office.

Elijah Lightfoot died in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Lori Lightfoot was Chicago’s mayor from 2019 to 2023, when she lost reelection to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday talked up her trip to San Francisco this week as a chance to sell Chicago to corporate leaders there as a good place to do business.The mayor said she met with ...