The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-delayed review of Chicago monuments still isn’t completed, but the mayor has restated her controversial pledge to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its prominent pedestal in Grant Park — the site of a bloody battle between police and demonstrators nearly two years ago.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Maria Pike found her calling after her son Ricky was shot and killed in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in August 2012.

Although Chicago hasn’t hosted a major party gathering in more than a quarter of a century, the city was historically the nation’s most popular site for national political conventions.

Case counts have remained relatively flat across most of the state, but the average seven-day positivity rate is at the highest point seen in a month. COVID deaths across the state have continued to plummet. The city is averaging less than one viral death per day.

CHICAGO — Illinois’ top Democrats have put together an organized effort to consider pitching Chicago to national party leaders as the site for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominating convention, officials said Wednesday.

CHICAGO — Officer Mahir “Mike” Affaneh panicked after he heard Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot make a statement in October that officers might have to go on a no-pay status if they refused to be vaccinated.

Organizers of the 2024 Democratic National Convention consider Chicago with its 162 years of experience.

The Rhinoceros Theater Festival, the Chicago Flamenco Festival and the opening of the 2022 Maxwell Street Market are among the fun things to see and do in the week ahead.

CHICAGO— En 2018, Reyna González compró Dulcería La Fiesta, una tienda de dulces y fiestas mexicanas en Clark Street, en el vecindario Rogers Park en Chicago. Unas tres semanas después, el edificio se incendió. "Lo perdimos todo", dijo González.

On Thusday, Life Is Work’s will host its first annual Chicago Trans Visibility Pageant in an effort to “uplift trans community leaders across the Chicagoland area.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is working with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s team and a litany of other top Democrats in the state to start laying the extensive groundwork needed to put together a bid for what would the city’s first major political convention since 1996.