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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing criticism from an outraged city after she devoted personal attention to clearing a beach party from the lakefront but could not stop looters from ransacking the Magnificent Mile and other retail districts.

Chicago officials announced Monday morning that police would be placed on high alert, with 12-hour shifts and expanded patrols throughout the city after the Magnificent Mile downtown was attacked by organized looters overnight.

During a Monday morning press conference Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown stressed that his officers are coming after looters and that 100 arrests have already been made related to the violence and destruction that happened overnight in the Windy City.

At least 35 people were shot, four fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

One hundred children have reportedly been shot in Democrat-controlled Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to this point in 2020 alone. 

Up-and-coming rapper FBG Duck was shot and killed in a broad daylight drive-by shooting Tuesday, gunned down in Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast neighborhood.

Dozens of families of Chicago police officers and other supporters took to the streets of Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood to call on Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other residents to support the Chicago Police Department on Sunday.

July 2020 shootings in riot-besieged Portland, Oregon, were more than double the number witnessed in July 2019.

There have been more shootings in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City at this point in 2020 than during the entire year of 2019.

Twenty-one people were shot, leaving at least six dead, between Friday evening and Saturday night in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago witnessed a 139 percent increase in murder during July 2020 when compared to July 2019.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) 2018 figures show that Illinois as the top source state for guns recovered in the state of Illinois.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) contends the surge in shootings in Chicago is the result of states in the Union that have “virtually no gun control.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) argued that President Trump “has gone beyond simple dog-whistling to probably dog barking” and is being “loud about, I think, black leadership in his constant fight”

A 10-month-old girl is in critical condition after being shot Monday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Fifty-nine people were shot, three fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago’s high gun violence rates were a result of the city “being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would not allow President Donald Trump to send federal police officers to quell protests in the city of Chicago.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deployed dozens of police officers on Thursday to form a human barricade around the block where she lives.

Days after 19 Chicago police officers were hospitalized after defending a statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park, Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot made the unilateral decision to topple it herself in the middle of the night.

Portland rioters barricaded federal law enforcement agents inside a federal courthouse as they tried to set the building ablaze amid ongoing violent protests in the Democrat-controlled city, according to a report.

The Black Lives Matter movement filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday to prevent President Donald Trump from sending 200 federal law enforcement officials to help Mayor Lori Lightfoot fight surging crime in the city.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accepted President Donald Trump’s offer of federal law enforcement officials to help fight crime in Chicago — but says they must not patrol protests, as federal officials are doing in Portland, Oregon.

In a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) addressed President Donald Trump ordering federal police officers to her city and other cities across the country to help quell ongoing violent protests.

Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his Wednesday evening program laying out the dire violent situation in Chicago under the leadership of the city’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D) sharply criticized Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) by stating that her “level of pettiness is causing disaster” and criticizing her public feud

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Wednesday threatened to sue the Trump administration if federal law enforcement agents step out of line following President Trump’s announcement that he is expanding government law enforcement operations to the crime-plagued city. 

Chicago Police Department officers showed footage Tuesday of last weekend’s attack on a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city, in which rioters armed with projectiles used “peaceful” protests as a cover for attacks on police.

At least 14 people are injured following a mass shooting outside of a funeral home in Chicago in yet another act of violence that has been plaguing the city. The incident coincides with Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) publicly rejecting President Trump’s assistance.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) joined the mayors of Atlanta, Chicago, D.C., Seattle, and Kansas City in demanding the expulsion of federal law enforcement from their cities and said President Donald Trump is “attacking progressive cities with a classic ‘divide and conquer’ tactics.”

President Donald Trump will be sending 150 federal law enforcement agents to Chicago this week through the Department of Homeland Security to assist in maintaining order in the city, over the objections of local Democrats.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “the ReidOut,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) vowed that she will “use every tool” she has to prevent the federal government from having federal law enforcement officials operating in Chicago the way they have in

Trump is planning to send 150 federal agents to assist other federal law enforcement in Chicago, where homicide rates have soared.

At least 65 people were shot, 10 fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

Fifty people have been shot and at least six killed Friday through Sunday morning this weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

On Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Watters’ World,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to a jab from Lightfoot by questioning why the mayor was focused on rhetoric and not shoring up public safety.