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The city of Chicago is citing businesses for failing to check the vaccination status of patrons, issuing over two dozen citations in the last three weeks.

A newborn boy was found dead in a duffel bag at a Near North Chicago fire station early Saturday, the Chicago Police Department said.

At least 29 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Two 14-year-old boys were shot and killed during separate armed attacks Wednesday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Authorities determined six-year-old Damari Perry died due to hypothermia and was discovered deceased and naked in a trash bag, an autopsy report stated.

Nearly 100 Chicago-area murder suspects are free on electronic home monitoring rather than being held behind bars in jail.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) agreed a return to in-person classes late Monday night but not before organizers called Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) “relentlessly stupid … relentlessly stubborn” in negotiations over coronavirus safety precautions.

The mother and two siblings of a North Chicago child were charged with the six-year-old’s death once his body was found in Gary, Indiana, officials said Saturday.

A delegate with the Chicago Teachers Union recently claimed he will “report” union employees who attend work inside their schools.

Hundreds of pro-life activists gathered in Chicago at Federal Plaza Saturday for the March for Life Chicago rally and march as a group of abortion rights protesters attempted to shout them down.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Chicago Teachers’ Union had their teachers take part in an “illegal walkout” by refusing to show up for in-person learning over fears of coronavirus.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich urged an end to “lies” of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election while urging that no limitations on voting be permitted.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady stated that the amount of children in the city hospitalized with the flu in a typical year is “comparable” to the hospitalization rate

Teachers’ unions across the country are demanding that schools shut down in favor of virtual learning amid concerns over the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Teachers have quickly become the one American profession in which they strike not to return to work, as is the case in Chicago, where their union has voted against in-person learning.

A Chicago area park district told parents that unvaccinated kids would not be allowed to play on district sports teams, then reversed the policy and apologized.

Chicago Alderman Michele Smith (D-Ward 43) wants her constituents to wear whistles, which they can blow while running towards armed robbers, should they witness a crime taking place.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said the coverage of the “saber-rattling by teachers’ union leadership” has ignored “the devastating effect that remote learning had on our children and on their families.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) stated that courts and prosecutors have to do more “to hold dangerous violent people accountable” and criticized the large amount of dangerous violent offenders who are

Thirty-one people were shot, six of them fatally, during New Year’s weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Last year proved to be the deadliest in a quarter of a century for Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) strife-torn Chicago.

A Chicago 911 dispatcher slammed Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot over the skyrocketing murder rate in the Windy City.

Eleven people were shot, one of them fatally, Monday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago (D).

Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D) accused Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) of putting the lives of police officers “in danger” as crime surges in the city. 

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) and her spouse Amy issued a warning to unvaccinated Chicagoans as part of a video wishing all a “joyous Kwanzaa” — a holiday created by black nationalists — while claiming the Marxist-rooted holiday’s principles “guide us to unity and cooperation.”

Twenty-two people were shot, two of them fatally, over Christmas weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

At least 18 people were shot, one of them fatally, Christmas Eve into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Twelve people were shot, one of them fatally, Thursday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

FOX News reports that Illinois state Sen. Kimberly Lightford’s (D) husband used a gun for self-defense during a carjacking Tuesday night.

A shootout inside the Chicago-area Oakbrook Center left four people injured late Thursday afternoon.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D) said that “we still talk more about COVID than we do gun violence” even though more children have been the victims of gun violence

New Florida residents are explaining why they flocked to the Sunshine State, praising the policies enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Businesses requiring patrons, including children as young as five, to show proof of vaccination is now “necessary,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) declared this week.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on Tuesday the city will soon be implementing a new vaccine passport system that will bar the unvaccinated from bars, restaurants, theaters, and other indoor venues.

The city of Chicago has joined Boston this week in barring unvaccinated residents from restaurants, bars, gyms amid omicron fears, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is seeking help from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in the face of surging homicides and continued gun crime.

The office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb released its full 60-page “summary report” Monday afternoon of its investigation into the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx over her improper handling of the Jussie Smollett case in 2019.

Twenty-three people were shot, at least three of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Officials at a Chicago high school have rejected forming a chapter of the conservative Turning Point USA on campus.

There have been over 800 homicides at this point in 2021 in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.