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☆ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Re-Election Bid, Says "We Put This City on a Better Path"
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Social Media Platforms Roll Out Subscriptions, But Will Users Pay? Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are among the social media platforms hoping their users will sign up for subscriptions. But will people want to pay for something that has historically been free? WSJ tech reporter Meghan Bobrowsky joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss why the platforms are doing this and what they are offering. Photo by Sergey Gribanov/Storyblocks.

☆ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Re-Election Bid, Says "We Put this City on a Better Path"
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ AI-generated audio of Joe Biden and Donald Trump trashtalking while gaming is taking over TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Allegra Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

On TikTok, faked audio created by AI of Joe Biden and Donald Trump gaming has become a hit meme. But the ease with voice AI can be used for jokes also shows how easy it is to fake convincing quotes. The Biden Cinematic UniverseOn the @bidenandfriends TikTok account, "Sleepy Joe" plays Minecraft and other video games with his best (and worst) buddies. Other political and celebrity figures pop up in various installments, but the core trio of Trump, Biden, and Obama seems to persist across the lore. "I remember when people thought AI would kill us all, but this is how we use it," commented one TikTok user.

☆ Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fights for Second Term in Elections Tuesday
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Ben Kesling | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in striped shirt, leaves an early-voting site with her wife, Amy Eshleman, after casting their ballots. CHICAGO—In a city where politicians often hold on to power for years, the incumbent mayor is fighting for another term in Tuesday’s election after battling a pandemic, the teachers union and crime in the city. Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight other candidates in the mayoral contest with opponents on the left and right of her politically. If no candidate gets a majority, the top two vote-getters move on to an April 4 runoff election. Elections officials said that a high number of mail-in ballots could delay results past Tuesday night.

☆ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fails in Re-Election Bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Ben Kesling | Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaking at a rally on Tuesday. CHICAGO—Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid by failing to garner enough votes to make a runoff election, a stunning fall for a candidate who had won all 50 of the city’s wards four years ago but had sparred with a powerful teachers union and been under fire for her response to rising crime. The Associated Press declared Tuesday night that Paul Vallas , a more moderate Democrat who had won the support of the city’s police union, and Brandon Johnson , a liberal teachers union organizer, secured the two spots in April’s runoff election.

☆ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fails in Re-Election Bid Tuesday
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Ben Kesling | Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CHICAGO—Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid by failing to garner enough votes to make a runoff election, a stunning fall for a candidate who had won all 50 of the city’s wards four years ago but had sparred with a powerful teacher’s union and been under fire for her response to rising crime. The Associated Press declared Tuesday night that Paul Vallas , a more moderate Democrat who had won the support of the city’s police union, and Brandon Johnson , a liberal teacher’s union organizer, secured the two spots in April’s runoff election.

☆ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fights for Second Term Tuesday
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Ben Kesling | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot leaves an early-voting site with her wife, Amy Eshleman, after casting their ballots. CHICAGO—In a city where politicians often hold on to power for years, the incumbent mayor is fighting for another term in Tuesday’s election after battling a pandemic, the teachers union and crime in the city. Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight other candidates in the mayoral contest with opponents on the left and right of her politically. If no candidate gets a majority, the top two vote-getters move on to an April 4 runoff election. Elections officials said that a high number of mail-in ballots could delay results past Tuesday night.

☆ Crime tops Chicago voters' concerns in mayoral election
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to children after a press event ahead of expected Thanksgiving travel at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 21, 2022. The Chicago race is technically nonpartisan, but every candidate identifies as a Democrat in the heavily left-leaning city. There were more than 800 murders in Chicago in 2021, the most in a quarter-century. Garcia, considered a liberal member of Congress, has said he would increase the number of officers on patrol and fund more community-based anti-violence programs. Reporting by Joseph Ax Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Josie KaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Chicago Mayor Election Results
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whose outsider status and promises to enact sweeping reforms propelled her to office four years ago, is seeking a second term amid a large field of challengers. Ms. Lightfoot, a Democrat who won all 50 wards in the 2019 runoff, saw her popularity plunge as homicides reached generational highs and as Chicago struggled to rebound from the pandemic.

CHICAGO—Some business leaders concerned about crime and corporate departures say they don’t think Mayor Lori Lightfoot is up to the task and are coalescing around one of her eight challengers, Paul Vallas , ahead of the city’s Feb. 28 election. Mr. Vallas, a former Chicago public schools chief and past city budget director, has received enough campaign contributions from law firm partners, investment executives and others to run a competitive campaign.

☆ Inside Ken Griffin's rise to one of Wall Street's most powerful people, and why politics could be next
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Dakin Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

JB and I are not on speaking terms these days," said Ken Griffin, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, referring to JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois. As Florida rolled back pandemic restrictions more quickly than Chicago, even more Citadel employees migrated south. Ken Griffin's hedge fund has had a run of eye-popping returns since 2020. Others worry that it gives Griffin's hedge fund an unfair advantage. Hundreds of Citadel employees, partners, and families gathered at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando Florida.

☆ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Faces Tough Re-Election Bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CHICAGO—Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing stiff competition from a large field of candidates in her re-election bid as Chicago struggles with public safety concerns and the lingering economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ms. Lightfoot, a 60-year-old former federal prosecutor, was the first Black woman and first gay person elected mayor of the nation’s third largest city, winning every city ward in a 2019 runoff against Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Now, early polls show the mayor as an underdog in the Feb. 28 election, with the top two vote-getters expected to face off in an April runoff if no candidate wins a majority in the first round.

☆ Colorado ends short-lived program to bus migrants to Chicago and NYC
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Deon J. Hampton | Deon J. Hampton Is A National Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Jared Polis said Colorado will no longer bus asylum-seekers to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of both cities demanded a halt to the policy. “The majority of migrants have a final destination other than Denver,” Polis' office said in a statement last week. While reversing his decision, Polis also set aside $5 million in state money to help provide assistance to the migrants, Denver officials said Monday. "We respectfully demand that you cease and desist sending migrants to New York City and Chicago." New York City has already taken in more than 38,000 migrants in the last nine months, Adams' office said Monday.

☆ Colorado Governor Halts Sending Migrants to New York City, Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An emergency response dormitory for migrants on Randall’s Island in New York City in October. Mayor Eric Adams said shelters are at maximum capacity. Jared Polis said he would halt busing migrants from Denver to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of those cities argued that their shelters were already overrun. New York Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in a letter on Saturday to Mr. Polis argued that “overburdening other cities” isn’t the solution to the burden of the wave of asylum seekers. Mr. Polis said in a statement Saturday that no more buses were scheduled to Chicago and a final charter to New York was slated to be completed Sunday.

☆ Micron launches mass output of advanced chip in Japan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU.O) on Wednesday kicked off mass production of its new high-capacity low-power 1-beta dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips at its plant in Hiroshima, Japan. The production of Micron's most advanced chip, which can store a third more data than older chips, comes as Japan tries to revive and modernise its once-mighty chip industry. The Japanese government in September offered Micron a 46.5 billion yen ($332 million) to boost production capacity at its plant. In July it gave a 93 billion yen subsidy to rival memory chip makers Kioxia Corp and Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) to help it expand output at their joint factory Japan. ($1 = 140.2700 yen)Reporting by Tim Kelly; Editing by David Dolan and Elaine HardcastleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Elon Musk has donated more to Republicans than Democrats over the past 2 decades
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has given $574,500 to Republicans and $542,000 to the Democrats, per OpenSecrets. He has given a total of $574,500 to Republicans and $542,000 to the Democrats in that period, according to the data. "Hardcore Democrats or Republicans never vote for the other side, so independent voters are the ones who actually decide who's in charge!" In 2015 the world's richest man only donated to Democrats, but the following year only gave to the GOP. Through SpaceX, he set up a PAC that donated just over half of its $30,000 to Democrats, with the remainder going to Republicans, per OpenSecrets.

☆ Elon Musk may have to shell out $44 billion to buy Twitter, but he's still the richest person in the world. Here's how the Tesla and SpaceX CEO makes and spends his $211 billion fortune.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

In August 2018, Musk told The New York Times that he had taken to working 120 hours a week. "There were times when I didn't leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn't go outside," he told The Times. "This has really come at the expense of seeing my kids. And seeing friends." Getty Images/Joshua LottSource: The New York Times

The arrival of thousands of migrants in New York, Washington, Chicago and beyond has sent officials in those cities scrambling to establish a system of support services, with mixed success. The Office of Migrant Services in Washington, D.C., will offer urgent medical care and connection to resettlement services. Phillips said migrants have been calling volunteer groups in the city “constantly” with problems, leaving volunteers in rapid-response mode. Mental health services are lackingStill, Enriquez said, there is a major hole in that care: mental health services. Mental health screenings are also part of the initial medical checkups at city health centers, Jochum said.

☆ Explosion in Chicago sends 8 to hospitals and causes a building to collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

An explosion sent eight people to hospitals and caused the collapse of a nearby building in Chicago Tuesday, officials said. The collapse occurred just before 9:30 a.m. on West Washington Boulevard and North Central Avenue, the Chicago Fire Department said in a tweet. A building collapsed following an explosion in Chicago on Sept. 20, 2022. Aerial footage of the building showed debris from the collapse strewn over the sidewalk, street and on top of a parked car. In a statement posted on Twitter, Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot said her "thoughts are with those who were injured and displaced in the building collapse in the Austin neighborhood."

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