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Washington (AFP) - Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's first Black woman and openly gay mayor, on Tuesday became the first leader of the huge Midwestern city in 40 years not to win re-election, US media reported. Lightfoot, criticized by rivals for the rising crime rates in the city, conceded the surprise defeat, telling supporters she was "rooting and praying for our next mayor to deliver for the people of the city for years to come." Paul Vallas, a former chief executive of Chicago public schools, will now face Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and former teacher, in a second round on April ...
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Chicago (AFP) - An eight-year-old girl who recently moved to Chicago from Mexico was shot dead over the weekend, the latest apparent victim of gang violence in the midwest US city. Melissa Ortega was walking with her mother in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood Saturday afternoon when gunshots rang out, police said. The girl and her mother sprinted towards a nearby bank for safety, but Ortega was struck twice in the head and killed. Police said the gunman's apparent target was a 26-year-old man, a suspected member of the Gangster Two Six street gang, who was hit in the lower back and hospit...
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Chicago (AFP) - Up to half of Chicago's police face being placed on unpaid leave after refusing to disclose their Covid-19 vaccine status, in a high-stakes game of chicken that comes as the US city grapples with a surge in violent crime. The stand-off between Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot and the head of the police union, John Catanzara, has made the city the latest flashpoint in a deeply polarized debate over vaccines and whether governments have the right to mandate them. Lightfoot has set a deadline of Friday at midnight for all workers employed by the third-largest city in the US to disclos...
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Chicago (AFP) - The United States celebrated Independence Day with parades, barbecues and fireworks, but in violence-plagued Chicago, 88 people were shot, 14 of them fatally. The holiday weekend violence comes after increased media and police attention to the problem that has plagued Chicago all year, the nation’s third-largest city which is on pace for more murders than the 774 recorded in 2020 -- which was Chicago’s second deadliest year in the last two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. Holiday weekends usually are especially deadly in Chicago, and because of that, mem...
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Washington (AFP) - Chicago's African-American mayor, decrying a lack of diversity in the media of the major US metropolis, has said that she will only grant one-on-one interviews to journalists of color to mark her two-year anniversary in office. Lori Lightfoot, 58, a Democrat, said she wanted to draw attention to the "overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets." "On the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color," she said in a two-page open letter. "As t...
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Chicago (AFP) - Authorities in Chicago released police body camera footage Thursday showing an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old Latino boy as the mayor of America's third-largest city appealed for calm over the "excruciating" video. The shocking footage shows teenager Adam Toledo running from officers in the small hours of March 29 and then being hit with a single shot to the chest as he stops and raises his hands. Prosecutors say he was armed, although no weapon is visible in his hands in the video when he is struck. Tensions over racism and policing are already high in the United States...
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Washington (AFP) - Chicago's mayor issued a new stay-at-home advisory on Thursday effective from November 16 as the United States' third-biggest city faces a surge in Covid-19 cases."I'm issuing a stay-at-home advisory asking all Chicagoans to only leave their homes for essential needs, including work and school," said Lori Lightfoot.It comes with Cook County, which includes Chicago, seeing 91.6 new daily cases per 100,000 people on a seven-day moving average, according to data compiled by the Harvard Global Health Institute dashboard. Anything above 25 cases per 100,000 is considered to be in...
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