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Lori Lightfoot is bringing her skills and knowledge to Harvard University to teach a health policy and leadership course. According to The Harvard Gazette, the former mayor of Chicago has been named a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow for the fall semester at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The fellowship program provides a once-in-a-lifetime chance for people who recently held prominent positions in journalism, nonprofit organizations, multilateral institutions, government and other fields to spend time mentoring and instructing students who want to fill those positions. Lightfoot, who served as the first openly gay and...

Chicago police are investigating three armored truck robberies that occurred just hours apart Wednesday

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. The Democratic incumbent failed to gain enough votes in the nine-person race to move on to an April 4 runoff election, according to projections by The Associated Press. Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago schools, will face Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union. Ideologically, the choice between Vallas and Johnson is stark. Vallas ran as a moderate law-and-order candidate, while Johnson...

Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot suggested Thursday that street vendors stop using cash in order to quell Chicago’s crime spike.

Two students, just 14 and 15 years old, were fatally shot in the head and two other teens were wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon near a high school on Chicago's West Side.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Parades are known for drawing crowds, and with them, politicians looking for exposure and potential votes. But in this election season, they were few and far between at Chicago's 70th annual Columbus Day parade. "You have parades that have become very controversial for a variety of political reasons and politicians don't want to alienate any part of a constituency, especially a large part of the constituency," said Laura Washington, ABC7 Political Analyst. Columbus Day is among them. The controversy is tied to protests about the treatment of indigenous people that led to Mayor Lightfoot to order Columbus...

Three people died and two were wounded in a shootout early Sunday at an intersection in Brighton Park, where drivers had taken over an intersection in one of several unauthorized drifting events overnight in Chicago, police said. Police had been monitoring a “large car caravan” on surveillance video at Archer and Kedzie avenues on the Southwest Side with 100 drivers and people drifting in the intersection, Police Cmdr. Don Jerome told reporters at the scene.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Weekend gun violence left 31 people shot, five fatally over the weekend, Chicago police said. Several children were among the victims, including a three-year-old boy killed on Friday and a seven-year-old boy shot on his way to church. Police said the family of the seven-year-old boy was driving to church when they noticed a man breaking into one of their other cars that was parked. They confronted the suspect, who police said pulled out a rifle and fired shots in the family's direction, striking the boy in the leg. That suspect was caught by police and the...

CHICAGO -- At least 23 people have been shot, four fatally, in weekend shootings across Chicago, police said. A $7,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the person who police said shot and killed 3-year-old Mateo Zastro, leaving his family torn. It all unfolded at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday night, with an apparent road rage incident near Cicero Avenue and West 71st Street on Chicago's Southwest Side, police said. "The mother attempted to flee from the other vehicle of the road rage incident," said 8th District Chicago Police Department Commander Bryan Spreyne. But,...

Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, a Republican, told Fox News that the migrants are being used as "political pawns" by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker. "As is my understanding, this hotel, about a year ago, when refugees came in from Afghanistan, apparently accepted several either through faith-based or charitable organizations, but now the state assumes they can just send migrants… this isn’t about them, the migrants is fine, they’re being used as political pawns by the governor and mayor," Grasso said. Grasso also said it's hypocritical for Lightfoot to be complaining about Texas Governor Greg...

Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) now says it is “immoral” and “unpatriotic” for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to bus migrants from Texas to the sanctuary city. Last week, Abbott started busing border crossers to the sanctuary city of Chicago after sending thousands over the last few months to the sanctuary cities of New York City, New York, and Washington, D.C. Initially, Lightfoot balked at the migrant buses by calling them “racist and xenophobic.” While visiting a shelter last week, Lightfoot called Abbott’s buses “immoral, unpatriotic” and claimed the operation “defies the values of who we are as Americans.” “We...

CHICAGO -- At least 46 people have been shot, seven fatally, in Labor Day weekend shootings across Chicago, police said. A man was fatally shot after an argument Saturday night in West Woodlawn on the South Side. The man, 29, was arguing with another man inside a residence about 11:15 p.m. in the 6600-block of South Evans Avenue when he was shot in the neck and arm, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No one was in custody. Another man was shot and killed on the city's North Side overnight Saturday, Chicago police said....

More than three dozen people have been shot so far over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, with five victims having died from their injuries. The first fatal shooting of the weekend was reported in the 4400 block of West Jackson at approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday. According to police, a 24-year-old man was standing on a sidewalk when two vehicles approached, and multiple gunmen opened fire, striking him multiple times in the back. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and an investigation remains underway. Just after midnight in the 1300 block of North Hudson, officers responding to a...

Operation Lone Star is moving on to Chicago, where a busload of illegal aliens arrived on Thursday after being released by the Biden administration in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has been busing a small fraction of the illegal aliens who have arrived in Texas following their release by the government with a slip of paper with a court date — usually two or three years from today. So far, there have been about 7,900 sent to Washington, D.C. with another couple of thousand sent to New York City. Thursday’s busloads were the first sent to Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sparked controversy due to a program designed to bus asylum-seekers to northern "sanctuary cities," and on Wednesday he said one of those transports arrived in the city of Chicago. Abbott’s office announced that the asylum-seekers were dropped off at Chicago’s Union Station, saying that Chicago will join Washington, D.C. and New York as a location for his administration’s “drop off policy.” “President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans – and Americans – at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said in a statement. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused a conservative super PAC of darkening her skin in a television ad meant to slam Illinois' Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, calling the commercial a 'cheap trick' to scare people into voting for their candidate. The 30-second ad - which warns in big, white lettering that 'Chicago violence is coming to the suburbs' and shows gun battles on the city's streets - touts Republican Darren Bailey as the solution to the city's current crime woes, and uses comments uttered by Lightfoot in a recent speech to seal this sentiment home. The ad opens with Lightfoot,...

CHICAGO - A man suspected of pushing a person off a CTA platform on the Near West Side in early August has been arrested. James Stamps, 28, of Joliet, was taken into custody Monday in the 2600 block of South California Avenue in Little Village, according to Chicago police. On the morning of Aug. 7, police said Stamps approached a person at the Illinois Medical District Blue Line platform in the 400 block of South Damen Avenue and pushed them onto the tracks. Chicago police have not released details about the victim's condition. Stamps was charged with a felony count...

CHICAGO — Nine people were shot within a three hour span in Chicago — two of them were killed. The first fatal shooting happened just before 9:30 p.m. on Monday on the 2500 block of South Karlov Avenue in Little Village. Three men fired 23 shots into a car where a 33-year-old man was sitting in the rear passenger seat. The man was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. The gunmen drove away in a blue truck. The second homicide happened two hours later on the 2500 block of East 84th Street around 11:30 p.m. Police...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 20 people have been shot, one fatally, since Friday evening across Chicago. One person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting Friday evening in Homan Square on the West Side. In nonfatal attacks, at least five people were shot on city's South Side overnight Saturday, Chicago police said. Hours later, two people were wounded, one critically, in a shooting on the city's North Side early Saturday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting happened in the Rogers Park neighborhood's 2100 block of West Birchwood Avenue at about 5 a.m., police said. A 24-year-old woman...

A string of shootings across Chicago Wednesday left at least 10 people shot, and, according to police, at least half of those who suffered gunshot wounds were under the age of 16. According to authorities, the youngest victim -- a 6-year-old boy -- remains in critical condition. At approximately 2:19 p.m. in the 6100 block of S. Vernon Avenue in the city's West Woodlawn neighborhood, police say a 6-year-old boy was inside a third floor apartment when a bullet struck him in the back. Authorities say the gunfire came from within the building, but provided no further information. Just a...