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At 6-month mark, Lightfoot’s effort to scale back aldermanic prerogative a work in progress
On the day she was inaugurated as Chicago’s 56th mayor, Lori Lightfoot was focused like a laser beam on putting aldermen on notice that she would not flinch from her campaign promise to strip them of the final say on ward-level issues.
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When searching newspaper archives, such as the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Defender and the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago History Museum’s Chief Historian Peter Alter found that there is little coverage of West Side communities after 1968.
From Nov. 8-23, the #EraseTheDatabase campaign is hosting workshops across Chicago to help people submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out if they are on the CPD gang databases.
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In this work of creative nonfiction, South side native Sydni Chiles writes about the difficulties of having her identity pigeonholed by societal definitions, and the beauty of finally breaking away from those definitions.
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