Biden meets with Chicago Mayor Lightfoot at airport amid surge in gun violence
Fox News
President Biden will meet with Chicago’s mayor on Wednesday, in the wake of an extremely violent holiday weekend in the nation’s third most populous city.
The meeting comes after more than 100 people were shot and 19 killed over the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, the city’s most violent weekend this year. And LIghtfoot has come under increasing pressure to take action. The president last month of crime fighting proposals which included cracking down on illegal guns, which has long been a major contributing factor to Chicago’s violence.More Related News