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An internal email shows the company’s CEO planned a “multi-prong” approach to getting support for renewing ShotSpotter’s contract.

Despite being lauded as a LeBron James-founded institution, I Promise School is not a private or charter school.

Despite being lauded as a LeBron James-founded institution, I Promise School is not a private or charter school.

“Mayor Lightfoot, in her final days, really worked to harm this incoming administration. It’s sad. It’s unfortunate. But we now have to come together as a city and clean up the mess that she left us,” Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, the mayor’s City Council floor leader, told the Sun-Times.

Photo caption: CHIEF JUDGE TIMOTHY EVANS leads a ceremony for the new members of the citywide district councils for the Community Commission on Public Safety

Brandon Johnson, the newly elected Mayor of Chicago, will face several challenges as he takes office on Monday. Urgent issues include the influx of migrants and high levels of violent crime.

Lightfoot denounced the City Council as corrupt, then turned around and shamed all 50 members, who were seated behind her, into joining the cheering crowd in a standing ovation for reform,

In a conversation with Jacobin, Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates, city councilor Carlos Rosa, and editor and organizer Alex Han discuss how Chicago’s working-class movement elected one of its own as mayor and where that movement goes now.

Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson attended an interfaith breakfast just days before his inauguration date. Lori Lightfoot's last day is Friday.

The countdown is on to Brandon Johnson is sworn in as Chicago's next mayor.