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Traffic on Lake Shore Drive near Grand, in Chicago, Monday, May 10, 2021. l(Antonio Perez/ Chicago Tribune)

The Spin: City Council approves renaming Lake Shore Drive for DuSable | Will Pritzker sign legislation that could trigger regular property tax hikes? | Preckwinkle administration wants more authority over COVID-19 relief funds

June 25, 2021 at 11:10 p.m.

Good afternoon on this soggy Friday. We're talking money and politics, among other things, today. The talker this afternoon is about legislation headed to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk that could...

A pedestrian crosses the Lincoln Park Passerelle over Lake Shore Drive Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in Chicago. The City Council tabled the vote on changing Lake Shore Drive to DuSable Drive after Black explorer Jean Baptist Point DuSable.

The Spin: City Council poised to vote on Lake Shore Drive name change tomorrow | More on yesterday’s council vs. Lightfoot chaos | FEC delays ruling on Robin Kelly fundraising

June 24, 2021 at 10:19 p.m.

OK, political observers, get a good night's sleep, plan to eat a healthy breakfast and take your vitamins. Tomorrow, Chicago City Council will return action and just might take a...

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff jokes with a teen during a vaccination at a Esperanza Health Center vaccination site in the Englewood neighborhood ,as part of the "We Can Do This" vaccination awareness bus tour, Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

The Spin: No vote on renaming Chicago’s LSD as City Council meeting devolves | Biden takes aim at Chicago crime | Emhoff in Chicago: Vaccinations are ‘not political’

June 24, 2021 at 1:58 a.m.

President Joe Biden's administration is going after crime in Chicago and other major metropolitan areas by launching "cross-jurisdictional firearms trafficking strike forces," the Justice Department announced this week. The aim...

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff chats with Donald Coleman at It's Official Barber Shop in the Englewood neighborhood as part of the "We Can Do This" vaccination bus tour on June 23, 2021.

Douglas Emhoff in Chicago: Getting the COVID-19 vaccine ‘is not political’

June 24, 2021 at 1:42 a.m.

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, said in Chicago Wednesday that as he's traveled the country in recent months to talk up vaccination efforts he hasn't once...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, meets with Annapolis restaurant owners during a roundtable discussion at the Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park in May 2021.

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff to visit Black-owned barbershop, vaccination site in Chicago as part of national vaccination tour

June 22, 2021 at 11:16 p.m.

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, will travel to Chicago on Wednesday as part of a White House initiative to boost COVID-19 vaccination numbers in pockets...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot listens to Ald. Edward Burke, left, at a City Council meeting in 2019.

The Spin: City Council compromise on Lake Shore Drive name change? | CTU’s Sharkey blasts Lightfoot over teacher layoffs | Douglas Emhoff heading to Chicago as part of White House vaccine push

June 22, 2021 at 10:18 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and members of Chicago City Council are at least talking about reaching a compromise over a controversial proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive for Chicago's Black founder...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is joined by Chicago police Superintendent David Brown, standing behind her, and others to discuss summer safety strategies at the Whitney Young Library in Chicago on May 28, 2021.

The Spin: Lightfoot does media tour as COVID-19 restrictions lift; Pritzker out of sight | Mayor, top cop denounce extremism as Chicago cop charged in Capitol riot | New lawsuit over Democrat-drawn map

June 11, 2021 at 9:41 p.m.

While Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did local and national media rounds, Gov. J.B. Pritzker was conspicuously quiet. It was his COVID-19 restrictions, which in the early days of the pandemic...

U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider addresses a crowd April 7, 2021, in Highland Park.

The Spin: The politics of COVID-19 as Illinois prepares to reopen | A closer look at what’s holding up the energy bill | Brad Schneider vs. Ilhan Omar

June 10, 2021 at 9:29 p.m.

On the eve of Gov. J.B. Pritzker lifting nearly all of his remaining statewide COVID-19 restrictions, public health experts here are cautioning that the pandemic is still with us and...

The Illinois State Capitol building May 20, 2020, in Springfield.

The Spin: Solis wired up on Madigan | Republicans sue, ask judge to toss Dem-drawn legislative remap | Harvey shooting prompts renewed criticism of mayor

June 9, 2021 at 9:47 p.m.

Turns out former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis secretly recorded more than one of Illinois' longtime political bosses, adding even more intrigue to the sprawling federal public corruption probe. We've known...

City Clerk Anna Valencia and Mayor Lori Lightfoot during a City Council meeting on May 26, 2021.

The Spin: Valencia vs. Lightfoot | Senate, House returning to Springfield to take up controversial legislation on energy, elected school board in Chicago | Durbin says bipartisan negotiations on Biden infrastructure plan petering out

June 8, 2021 at 9:43 p.m.

The Tribune's Dan Petrella reports that the Illinois Senate is returning to Springfield next week to take up energy legislation negotiated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The deal would set aside hundreds...

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