Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after being sworn in as mayor on May 20, 2019. Lori Lightfoot has officially been inaugurated, becoming the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chicago.

Jane Byrne, with an assist from mighty snowstorms and a tone-deaf Chicago mayor who preceded her, will forever be known as the feisty woman who in 1979 toppled Chicago’s formidable Democratic ...

Lori Lightfoot will become Chicago’s second female mayor: Jane Byrne served one term, from 1979 to 1983. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty Images. By Shia Kapos and Steven Shepard 04/02/2019 09:23 ...

CHICAGO — Voters in Chicago made history on Tuesday by electing Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, as the city’s first black female mayor.Her commanding victory capped a grueling ...

Why Chicago’s 1st female mayor moved into the city’s most notorious public housing project SNEED: As Jane Byrne’s former press secretary, I was with someone she turned to for advice on a ...

Former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne had the last laugh. On Friday as news spread that Chicago's only female mayor had died, news organizations scrambled to put out Byrne's obituary.

Denouncing the lack of diversity amid Chicago media outlets, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced that she will only give journalists of color one-on-one interviews to mark her two-year anniversary ...

Lori Lightfoot has been elected the next mayor of Chicago, becoming the first African-American woman picked to lead the country’s third-most populous city.

Chicago voters made history Tuesday night when they elected Lori Lightfoot to be the city’s first Black female mayor. Lelia Foley-Davis knows what that feels like.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jane Byrne, Chicago's first and only female mayor, died on Friday. She was 81. Her daughter, Kathy Byrne, said the former mayor died around 10 a.m. Friday.

Chicago will swear in its first black female and first openly gay mayor Monday, concluding Lori Lightfoot's astonishing, yearlong rise from near anonymity to leader of the nation's third-largest city.