Residents take stock of the mayor's first year

JAN 08 2026

A local news package marking one year of the Lurie administration, gathering residents' assessments of the public-safety priority the mayor set on taking office. Contemporaneous reporting recorded 588 overdose deaths in 2025 against 635 the year before, roughly 500 treatment beds delivered against a promised 1,500, and a street tent count down to 162 structures by December.