Heather Cherone, Oct 11, 2022 Mayor Lori Lightfoot won a commanding victory in the 2019 race for Chicago mayor after Read more
WTTW: Lightfoot Uses 2023 Budget to Tout Progressive Credentials as She Gears Up for Challenges from All Sides
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Chicago Tribune: Matt Martin and Maria Hadden: A progressive real estate transfer tax would help the city tackle homelessness
By Matt Martin and Maria Hadden, Oct 7, 2022 On Sept. 6, a woman and her partner visited the 49th Ward Read more
WTTW: New Report Finds At Least 65,000 People Experiencing Homelessness in Chicago
Eunice Alpasan, Oct 5, 2022 A recent report by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless found at least 65,000 people were experiencing Read more
WTTW: Housing Advocates Stage Tent Encampment in City Hall During Mayor’s Budget Address
Nick Blumberg, Oct 3, 2022 Chanting “Housing is a human right! Lightfoot will not stop our fight!” and “Lo-ri! We’re Read more
CBS Chicago: Protesters stage ‘tent city’ inside Chicago City Hall, demanding more resources for the homeless
CHICAGO (CBS) — Just as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was delivering her budget address, protesters gathered inside City Hall demanding more money Read more
Chicago Tribune, Letter to the Editor: Mayor Lightfoot, fulfill your promise and pave the way for funding homelessness-related services
In Gregory Pratt’s article “Lightfoot still has promises to fulfill” (April 4), Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office maintains that the pandemic and the Read more
We Demand Better: A citywide housing forum
May 4 forum will call on the city to create safe, stable housing. Bring Chicago Home, in partnership with Right Read more
WBEZ: Mayor Lightfoot’s Poverty Plan: What Issues, Which Groups Are At The Table?
Feb. 27 – On Wednesday, community activists gathered at City Hall in response to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s poverty summit last Read more
The Daily Line: If Lightfoot is serious about ending poverty in Chicago, here’s what she’d do: coalition
Feb. 27 – A coalition of progressive groups that have been at odds with Mayor Lori Lightfoot since she took office laid Read more
Chicago Sun-Times: Lightfoot accused of going through the motions of a war on poverty
Feb. 26 – Mayor Lori Lightfoot was accused Wednesday of going through the motions Progressive groups complain the mayor left Read more
