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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot drove around the city to enforce stay at home order

Earlier this month Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot went viral in a series of internet memes. Now the notoriously tenacious public

Blue Telusma / April 10, 2020

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OPINION: It’s time to look past Chicago Mayor elect Lori Lightfoot’s sexuality and take a take a long, hard stare into her politics

Kwyn Townsend Riley is a BYP100 organizer and a queer, Black womxn from the Southside of Chicago who believes it's

Kwynn Riley / April 16, 2019

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Chicago mayoral election heads to runoff between two Black women

Chicago is on the verge of electing its first Black woman Mayor in the Windy City’s history as Lori Lightfoot

Kia Morgan-Smith / February 27, 2019

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Kanye West donates $73,000 to Chicago Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia

  Kanye West just put his money where his mouth is not. The rapper who has been championing Donald Trump donated

Cortney Wills / October 23, 2018

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16 bullets: Why Laquan McDonald’s life will always matter

Laquan McDonald was a human being. But in the video footage of his murder, Officer Jason Van Dyke treated Laquan

David A. Love / November 25, 2015

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Rahm Emanuel outraged by 7-year-old's shooting death

NBC Chicago- The death of 7-year-old Heaven Sutton shocked and angered more than just her family. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was

TheGrio Staff / June 29, 2012