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  • Vaccine showdown in the Windy City: Nearly 50% of Chicago's 13,000-strong police force could be put on unpaid LEAVE for ignoring Mayor Lori Lightfoot's compulsory shot order

    10/16/2021 1:11:43 PM PDT · by RummyChick · 47 replies
    dm ^ | 10/16/2021 | thaler
    Up to 6,500 Chicago cops could be placed on unpaid leave for thumbing their noses at the city's just-expired deadline to get the COVID vaccine after the police union president warned Mayor Lori Lightfoot of a possible strike, resulting in a judge issuing a temporary restraining order against the cop late Friday night. The feud between Lightfoot and head of the Chicago Branch of the Fraternal Order of Police John Catanzara escalated when Lightfoot brought the fight to court and filed a Complaint for Injunctive Relief against the police union and Catanzara. She said in Thursday's filing that the police...
  • Biden calls Lori Lightfoot ‘Mr. Mayor’

    10/08/2021 11:58:37 AM PDT · by White Lives Matter · 49 replies
    Citizen Free Press ^ | October 8, 2021 | Kane
    Wait… did ⁦@JoeBiden⁩ just call Lori Lightfoot “Mr. Mayor?” What am I missing? pic.twitter.com/J3o3Ohb7Oz — Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) October 7, 2021 Does Biden know something we don’t about Lori Lightfoot?
  • CPS [Chicago Public Schools] talking to Lyft, Uber after bus drivers quit over vaccine mandate

    08/30/2021 6:10:25 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 41 replies
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 8/30/2021 | Nader Issa
    As thousands of Chicago Public Schools families scrambled to find transportation to the first day of school Monday because of a mass bus driver resignation that officials attributed to anger over a vaccine mandate, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said her administration is in talks with rideshare companies to take children to their schools. The move would be highly unusual and could cause yet another set of dilemmas to sort through as parents figure out how to get their kids to classes. About 2,100 students, including 990 in special education, were given no more than two days’ notice that their bus route...
  • Mayor Lightfoot declares racism a public health crisis in Chicago

    06/17/2021 8:07:28 PM PDT · by Libloather · 40 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 6/17/21 | Jeremy Beaman
    Racism against black Chicago residents constitutes a public health crisis within the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared on Thursday. Lightfoot said in a press conference that it is “way past time that as a city” made the declaration, which followed the publication of a Tuesday report by the Chicago Department of Public Health reporting the difference in life expectancy between black and non-black residents is 9.2 years. “We’ve made undeniable progress in our city, and I’m standing here today as the first black woman and first LGBTQ mayor as a testament to that progress,” the mayor said. “But no one...