CHICAGO (CBS) -- More than five months after former Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson stepped down as the city's top watchdog, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is appointing his former top deputy to ...

Lightfoot's project will collect and vet alleged wrongdoing by federal agents on a new website to eventually help "someone ...

Early in her term, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot successfully pushed aldermen to change city law so that her administration could release previously confidential reports from the inspector general.

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot launched an independent initiative on Thursday to document the alleged abuse of power by federal immigration officers in response to the Trump administration’s ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Plans to relocate a Lincoln Park car shredding plant to the Southeast Side are on hold because of environmental concerns. General Iron has a history of violations with the Illinois ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is delaying the permitting process for General Iron, after a request from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The company wants to move its ...

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has officially launched what she calls the Ice Accountability Project, with a website for reporting alleged “criminal, abusive conduct” by federal agents.

After Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot downplayed her administration’s slow implementation of police reforms during a speech in 2020, a lawyer for the Illinois attorney general responded in court by ...