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"The deadly nature of this virus is not a hoax. Choosing to go out in public without a mask is not a political statement, going out without a face covering on endangers the other customers at the grocery store. It puts your friends and your family at risk. There's nothing political about that."
"We, as employees, are not being notified."
"We are not going to allow democracy to be hijacked by the federal government. That is not happening in Chicago."
Congressman Chuy Garcia claims the White House plan to deploy 175 federal agents in Chicago poses a threat to our democracy, and the safety of Chicago communities.
Protesters marched from Federal Plaza toward Trump Tower early Monday evening.
Chicago native, rapper, and now presidential candidate Kanye West has enough signatures to make it onto the Illinois ballot.
"On March 15 we had 135 employees. On March 17 we went down to three."
The city has kept decades of police misconduct records under wraps, and is now willing to pay half a million dollars of your taxpayer money to keep it that way.
"We don't need federal agents, without any insignia, taking people off the street and holding them, I think, unlawfully. That's not what we need," Mayor Lightfoot said.
Chicago currently allows "no-fault" evictions, but the ordinance backed by a group of progressive aldermen seeks to put an end to that.
Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez reported a second incident of vandalism in two weeks.
A group of elected officials on the city, county, and state level on Sunday issued a statement condemning Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara Jr.'s letter to President Donald Trump asking for federal assistance in dealing with "chaos" in Chicago.
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara Jr. issued a letter to President Donald Trump on Saturday, asking for help from the federal government to fight "chaos" in Chicago and calling Mayor Lori Lightfoot a "complete failure."
Following months of speculation about a wide-ranging investigation, federal prosecutors have charged ComEd with a yearslong bribery scheme that implicates Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and his associates.
