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Block Club Chicago - Coronavirus In Chicago: Lightfoot Vows To Fix Racial Divides That Have Worsened Crisis For Black, Brown Chicagoans
Chicago Sun-Times - Lightfoot, Pritzker respond to surge of COVID-19 cases among Hispanics
Block Club Chicago - Chicago’s Latino Neighborhoods Have Most Coronavirus Cases In The State. Is The City Doing Enough To Respond?
Fox 32 - Bridgeport residents fed up over dangerous drag racing in their neighborhood
Patch - Pritzker Brags As Coronavirus Testing In Minority Enclaves Lags
Patch - Pritzker's Coronavirus Testing Push Missing Minority Hot Spots?
WTTW - COVID-19 Policy: Ald. Lopez on Southwest Side Pandemic Response
Block Club Chicago - Englewood Seniors And Essential Workers Can Get Free Masks Thanks To This Man’s Constant Sewing
ProPublica Illinois - In Chicago, Urban Density May Not Be to Blame for the Spread of the Coronavirus
CBS 2 Chicago - Aldermen Vote To Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages Starting In 2021
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ABC 7 Chicago - Coronavirus Chicago: Mayor Lightfoot grows frustrated as City Council delays emergency powers decision; David Brown confirmed as CPD superintendent
CBS Chicago - Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blasts ‘Preening’ Opponents Who Delayed City Council Vote On Emergency COVID-19 Spending Powers; ‘The Ploy Of These Grandstanders Changes Nothing’
WGN - City Council confirms David Brown as Chicago’s new police superintendent
WTTW - Aldermen Block Measure Giving Lightfoot Emergency Powers Ordinance
Crain's Chicago Business - Lightfoot's emergency powers ordinance blocked
Block Club Chicago - City’s First Online Council Meeting Ends With Name Calling, ‘Grandstanding’ As Vote On Emergency Powers For Mayor Delayed
Chicago Tribune - Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s opponents block COVID-19 measure giving her extraordinary spending powers for Chicago’s pandemic response
Chicago Sun-Times - Aldermen who blocked emergency powers ordinance are ‘selfish, grandstanding,’ Lightfoot says
Chicago Tribune - Chicago alderman proposes benefits fund for essential city workers who die in a disaster, such as coronavirus pandemic
Chicago Sun-Times - Alderman proposes 15-day furlough for elected officials to generate $375K for protective gear, supplies for first-responders
Chicago Tribune - In email exchange, Mayor Lori Lightfoot offers to withhold Chicago Alderman's pay to help buy equipment for first responders amid Coronavirus outbreak
Chicago Sun-Times - City Council committee launches crackdown on cyber flashing
Chicago Sun-Times - CPS students unlikely to return to schools this year, alderman says after mayoral briefing