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2 months ago | 
kansascity.com | Jake Sheridan |Alice Yin |Gregory Pratt
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
ledger-enquirer.com | Nell Salzman |Alice Yin |Gregory Pratt
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
audible.com | Gregory Pratt |Adam Goldman |Oscar Wilde |Andrea Bartz
Chicago is a world-class city, but it is also a city in crisis. Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city's haves and have nots. For four years, the person at the center of this storm was Lori Lightfoot.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
gmtoday.com | Gregory Pratt |Alice Yin
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sat down with Tribune City Hall reporters Gregory Royal Pratt and Alice Yin last week to talk about his time in office as he approached the end of his first 100 days in office. Here’s a transcript of their exchange. Gregory Royal Pratt: You know, you’re different than Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot in a variety of ways. You know, when I joke about it, I like to say that she wakes up in a bad mood and you wake up in a good mood as a personality barometer.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
scribd.com | Gregory Pratt |Alice Yin
CHICAGO -- Days before he was sworn in as Chicago’s mayor in 2011, Rahm Emanuel unveiled a series of goals from his transition team, including plans for the first 100 days. Lori Lightfoot similarly held a pre-inaugural news conference in 2019 detailing her transition committee’s recommendations and her aspirations for the administration to come. Since winning the April 4 election to become Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson has taken a much different approach to the change from candidate to mayor.
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May 15, 2023 | 
kansascity.com | Gregory Pratt |Alice Yin
CHICAGO - Mayor Lori Lightfoot exits office Monday after presiding over the city's most tumultuous era in generations, one marked by enormous strain on every element of civic life and the twin crises of COVID-19 and civil unrest. As Chicago's first Black female and first openly gay mayor, Lightfoot vowed four years ago to make Chicago the safest big city in the country, transform its reputation as a hive for corruption and villainy and lead an overhaul of the long-troubled Police Department.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
kansascity.com | Gregory Pratt
CHICAGO - Cloudy skies Tuesday alluded to the severe weather expected during the runoff election, as voters head to the polls to select the next mayor of Chicago. As of noon Central time Tuesday, the Chicago Board of Elections reported 22.9% total citywide turnout. Top voter turnout was reported in the 19th, 41st, 11th, 13th and 47th wards, according to Board of Elections spokesperson Max Bever. Fourteen polling places delayed opening Tuesday morning, with three being in the 6th Ward.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
thederrick.com | Gregory Pratt |Alice Yin |Hank Sanders
By Gregory Pratt, Alice Yin, Hank Sanders - Chicago Tribune (TNS) CHICAGO - Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas escalated their attacks on one another as Chicago's mayoral race entered the final week of campaigning before the April 4 election. Monday morning, Vallas held a rally with trade unions supporting his campaign where he denounced an effort to place lawn signs around the city linking him to former President Donald Trump. Copyright 2023 Tribune Content Agency.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
ledger-enquirer.com | Gregory Pratt |Alice Yin
CHICAGO - Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas escalated their attacks on one another as Chicago's mayoral race entered the final week of campaigning before the April 4 election. Monday morning, Vallas held a rally with trade unions supporting his campaign where he denounced an effort to place lawn signs around the city linking him to former President Donald Trump.
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Mar 18, 2023 | 
thederrick.com | Gregory Pratt |Alice Yin
CHICAGO - In a particularly heated forum, Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson repeatedly clashed over economic policy, school closings and street violence. Vallas, a former Chicago Public Schools CEO, repeatedly raised his voice and told Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and Chicago Teachers Union organizer, not to lecture him in a Saturday debate hosted at Kenwood Academy High School by the Coalition of African American Leaders. Copyright 2023 Tribune Content Agency.
