Lightfoot will provide analysis, interviews and insight for CBS 2 viewers throughout the convention.
Former Mayor Lightfoot to join CBS 2 Chicago as TV analyst for DNC
Category: Democratic National Convention
Chicago business owners unsure if they’ll see DNC business boost
Representatives of the city’s hospitality industry said they are hopeful, but not convinced, that the convention would be good for business.
Migrant homeless encampment cleared; city officials deny it’s because of DNC
The encampment clearing was the latest of the city’s overall “encampment initiative” at eight tent cities across Chicago, according to Chicago Department of Family and Support Services spokesman Brian Berg.
Plans for outside police officers to assist Chicago cops at DNC still fluid as convention month arrives
With convention less than three weeks away, it’s still not known which police departments will be sending personnel to Chicago or how many officers they will provide.
Don’t expect a balloon drop quite yet. How the virtual roll call to nominate Kamala Harris will work
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention will officially select their nominee for president in a process that begins Thursday.
Kamala Harris has little-known childhood connection to Illinois; family friend recounts memories from her year in Champaign-Urbana
If presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Harris is elected to the nation’s top office this November, she would be the fifth president to have once called Illinois home.
‘No one asked’: Many West Side residents say they were left in dark about DNC plans
For the past half-century, Dee Henderson has lived in an old brick house just a few hundred feet from the United Center. Henderson, 66, has raised her children and grandchildren in the house. She’s hosted parties for Chicago Bulls victories and spent her summers on her back porch, sipping her favorite cocktail — Tito’s vodka, orange juice, grenadine and Sprite — and watching her kids play in an above-ground pool in the parking lot that separates her house from the large arena. But while the nation prepares for a Democratic National Convention in late August that will bring 50,000 delegates, staff […]
This is how the DNC security perimeter will affect residents and commuters near the United Center, McCormick Place
Residents, businesses and commuters traveling around the United Center and McCormick Place can now prepare for street closures and security restrictions during the Democratic National Convention.
Democrats poised to virtually nominate Harris — and her running mate — by Aug. 7
Democratic National Convention delegates can make Vice President Kamala Harris their presidential nominee — and even start approving her yet-to be-named running mate — in online voting beginning next week.
Chicago leaders brace for as many as 25,000 new migrants ahead of DNC: ‘We just need to be prepared’
The high-end estimate came as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration defended its policy of evicting migrants who stay in city shelters longer than 60 days.